Tag: landmines

The lifesaving contributions of a Nepali explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) company to operations in landlocked Mali where a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission is...

Algeria, one of the most mine-affected countries in the world, has announced it has cleared all its landmines. The North African country said...

As young boys growing up on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Mahmud Hassani and his brother Massoud saw firsthand the damage...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has donated de-mining equipment, including detectors and protective equipment, to the Zimbabwe Mine Action...

U.S. Marines are in their fifth week working alongside Senegalese armed forces partners, mentoring and advising a demining course for the West...

Three civilians died in northern Mali when their vehicle hit a landmine and two UN peacekeepers who went to the rescue were...

Defence is going to be well represented at this week's CSIR conference with seven speakers due to address topics ranging from landmine...

Mozambique will be declared free of landmines on Thursday, a charity dedicated to mine clearance said, ending two decades of work to...

The United States has handed over $126 000 worth of equipment and training aids to Namibia to assist in the clearance of...

Three people contracted to clear landmines for a U.N. peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been kidnapped. MONUSCO spokesman Colonel...

The Algerian People's National Army (PNA) says it has destroyed a total of 758 607 anti-personnel mines and land-mines along the country's...

Fewer people were killed or wounded by landmines over the past year than at any time since record-keeping began in 1999, and...

Specialist de-mining company Mechem is providing field camp services to the United Nations, and this has become a big part of the...

The United States announced on Friday that it will no longer produce or seek to acquire anti-personnel landmines, deadly weapons that the...

The Japanese government has donated $5.2 million to the Libyan government to fund the clearance of weapons, munitions and other explosive remnants...

The Angolan Ministry of Assistance and Social Reintegration says 1 480 anti-personnel mines, 113 anti-tank mines, 77 559 pieces of unexploded ordnance,...

The discovery of landmines in Mali is another addition to the list of dangers facing volunteer doctors, nurses and other medical personnel...

A press release that crossed my inbox this week again repeated what was put as an United Nations claim that millions of...

In a laboratory on the grounds of a police-guarded complex, 11 white-furred rats wait their turn to impress trainers and perhaps receive...

The United Nations official coordinating efforts to ensure that Libya is free from the threat of landmines and other explosive remnants of...

The president of the international treaty banning anti-personnel mines has expressed "deep concern" about reports of new mine use in Libya. "New...

The President of the international treaty banning anti-personnel mines has expressed "deep concern" about reports of new mine use in Libya. "New...

Nine years after an international NGO identified 249 communities in Chad living near landmines – putting at risk one in 10 people...

Experts report that landmines and other unexploded devices remain a serious risk to populations at some 2600 locations in the Democratic Republic...

The 2005 peace accord that ended Sudan's north-south civil war has enhanced efforts to rid the vast African nation of landmines that...

Egypt has stepped up efforts to clear millions of World War Two mines from prime north coast land in a $250 million demining...