The UN’s top human rights official on Wednesday expressed grave alarm that six European countries are either in the process of or are considering withdrawing from the international treaty prohibiting anti-personnel mines.
Global casualties from anti-personnel landmines were “exceptionally high” last year, with Syrians and Afghans worst-hit, a UN-backed civil society report said on Wednesday
Ongoing hostilities in Libya have left numerous cities severely “re-contaminated” with unexploded ordnance, threatening schools, universities and hospitals, the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) said on Wednesday.
Thousands of residents in the West Darfur town of Kereinek are celebrating their area being declared free of unexploded ordnance and explosive remnants of war.
Louis Visagie, ordnance disposal officer at the joint AU-UN operation in Darfur, UNAMID, told Matilda Moyo how this was accomplished.
