October '09

• SUDAN: Al Lafa returnees free from the danger of mines
• FALKLANDS: De-mining receives go-ahead with UK contract
• CHINA introduces new mine-sweeping device
• BELGIAN/RUSSIAN landmines giving way to new farms in MOZAMBIQUE
• US gov't to donate $2mil to demining MOZAMBIQUE
• Rap teaches CAMBODIAN youths dangers of landmines
• PAKISTAN: Red Cross/Red Crescent respond to needs as returns continue
• NIGERIA: 39 years after, civil war explosives found
• GUINEA-BISSAU: Mine-free farms for first time since 1974
• INDIA: Mined lives
• SRI LANKA: Demining in progress in the Rice Bowl
• SUDAN: Refreshing MRE in Southern Kordofan
• ANGOLA: Over 40 mil sq m demined in Benguela Province
• Demining project on the JORDANIAN-SYRIAN border
• ALBANIA free of landmines, UXO
• BOSNIA, CROATIA urged to step up mine clearance
• Demining Project Office Team arrives in the FALKLANDS
• Rat demining agency up for innovation prize
• TAIWAN: President calls for demining to be completed by 2013
• SRI LANKA receives more foreign aid for landmine clearing operations in the north
• LEBANON: UNIFIL demines land for farmers
• Getting rid of dangerous weapons in NIGERIA
• ANGOLA: Over five million explosive devices removed in 13 years
• NIGERIA: Benue communities seek relocation over explosives
• SUDAN: Landmines threaten election and referendum processes
• IRAQ: Living with the threat of unexploded ordnance and landmines
• BURMA: Landmines halt refugee return
• 30 killed in AFGHANISTAN landmine blast
• Peace Day 2009: Mine action paving the way for peace and development
• SRI LANKA: Resettling 70% of IDPs govt's initial target
• SRI LANKA to resettle the IDPs first in the area west of A-9
• More 'combat enablers' AFGHAN-bound
• Shipping clothing to COLOMBIA'S landmine victims

September '09

• More international support for demining
• SRI LANKA imports five more demining machines to expedite
• Third Continental Conference of African Experts on Landmines held
• Eliminating global arms trade crucial to security, sustainable development
• Remnants of VIETNAM War still scarring lives
• SRI LANKAN success on Omanthai-Welioya road
• SRI LANKA: Forthcoming monsoon could impede demining activities
• SENEGAL: One landmine gone, thousands of hectares gained
• US Pacific Command boosts demining in SRI LANKA
• DR CONGO: Local official hails UN's demining work as 'priceless'
• COLOMBIA's rebels step up a brutal tactic
• Landmine survivors call on governments to live up to their promises
• COLOMBIA wants former rebels to help clear mines
• INDIA: Combing Saranda for mines
• SRI LANKA imports machines to clear mines
• ANGOLA: Demining personnel training a priority
• ANGOLA: Demining commission works with Parliament
• CAMBODIAN deminers train, awaiting SUDAN's dry season
• Amputees bear lifelong cost of PAKISTAN'S conflict
• SRI LANKA: Army Chief seeks international assistance for demining
• ANGOLA: Demining commission to implement statistics projects
• US contributing $6mil toward SRI LANKAN demining
• BELARUS, EU to hold talks on landmine destruction project
• Landmines in COLOMBIA: Cheap and lethal
• ANGOLA: Over 90 km of road cleared of landmines
• THAILAND: Unconventional landmine victims get new limbs
• ANGOLA: INAD destroys over 100 explosive devices
  

August '09

• AUSTRALIAN support for demining in SRI LANKA
• LEBANESE landmine victims turn to soccer
• Sixty years of the Geneva Conventions
• GAZA: Explosives, mines and white phosphorus clean-up operation
• GEORGIA/SOUTH OSSETIA: Lasting impact of conflict
• New AZERI 'Big Return' program to resettle IDPs
• TAIWAN sponsors landmine survivor assistance program
• UK Supports mine clearance in SRI LANKA
• CAMBODIA: Gov't blocks meeting with "Miss Landmine" contestants
• Unexploded ordnance a lethal problem in VIETNAM
• 80 more INDIANS fly to SRI LANKA to clear landmines
• VIETNAM still faces landmine blight
• US signs International Convention on Rights of Disabled
• Picking up the remnants of war in UGANDA - photo essay
• Survivors celebrate as BiH signs Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Study finds leftover bombs killed 10,500 in VIETNAM
• SUDAN: Malakal minefields still a challenge
• AFGHANISTAN: Saving historical heritage from landmines
• CAMBODIAN mine casualties rise in June
• Demining program in AFGHANISTAN
• UK firm wins award for mine-clearance technology
• INDIA aids SRI LANKA in mine clearance, resettlement
• KOSOVO bicycle tour to raise awareness and funds for mine clearance
• Women-only demining teams at work in SOUTH SUDAN

July '09

• Kidnappers free 16 AFGHAN demining workers
• Quick Reaction Force completes UXO clearance mission in TANZANIA
• One ton of UXO destroyed on TAIWAN
• SRI LANKAN gov't committed to resettle refugess in 6 months (already posted something similar)
• Puntland, SOMALIA: Authorities and stakeholders review progress in implementing Deed of Commitment
• Clearing mines in AFGHANISTAN
• SUDAN: Demining not just a man's job
• SERBIA: River bed and river bank UXO Clearance Project Planned
• Violence delays mine clearing in AFGHANISTAN
• SARMENIA: A decade's work to clear the minefields

June '09

• Awareness campaign aims to reduce danger from unexploded ordnance in CHAD
• Protection of civilians from explosive weapons
• Appeal for help to clear landmines in IRAQ
• SRI LANKA says demining completed in 90% of the north
• Law ratified on demining of minefields along SYRIAN border
• Before you throw that away...
• SRI LANKAN troops recover over 1.5 million landmines in north
• 52 CAMBODIAN Soldiers Join Demining Operations in Sudan
• SRI LANKA: A-9 highway to remain closed until landmines cleared
• SENEGAL: Fresh violence in Casamance
• Juanes asks Clinton for support for anti-landmine campaign
• TURKEY: Premier says Turkish military can clear minefields
• Unexploded bombs threaten reconstruction of GAZA
• SRI LANKA: Nearly 176,000 Mines Removed
• FLEMISH donate millions to demining in MOZAMBIQUE
• Planned demining of TURKEY/SYRIA border referred to court
• AZERBAIJAN: Nearly 25 Million Square Meters Demined in May
• IRAQ halts clearing landmines even as huge toll keeps rising
• US Wartime Bombs Still Killing in VIETNAM
• CNMI: 1000 lbs of WWII explosives detonated
• TURKEY: Divisive bill to clear mines on SYRIAN border passes
• From the Expert: How to Clear Mines
• IRAQ would need 'an army' to remove all landmines
• TAJIKISATAN seeks demining help from EU
• New anti-mine technology shows promise in ANGOLA
• JAPAN aids demining in SRI LANKA
• TURKEY: NATO demining more economical
• SCOTLAND: Landmine survivor runs marathons
• PAKISTAN: fear amid reports of mine-laying in Mingora
• TURKEY: PM denounces xenophobia over mine clearance
• A special process to resettle SRI LANKA'S IDPs

May '09

• SCOTLAND: Landmine charity founder wins Burns Award
• MOZAMBIQUE: Demining power line costs $1mil
• MAG steps up clearance efforts in SRI LANKA
• AFGHANISTAN: Community-based demining progresses
• ANGOLA asks for help in clearing landmines
• ZIMBABWE: Local company contracted to demine Gonarezhou
• MOZAMBIQUE: demining to begin in Maputo
• ANGOLA: Over 73 areas cleared of landmines
• CAMBODIA: Junkyard approach to demining
• NEPAL: Explosive Reminders of War
• SOUTHERN SUDAN: A garden with a difference
• ANGOLA: National meeting on demining
• ANGOLA: Over one million sq m cleared of landmines
• Demining in eastern SRI LANKA concluding
• US, IRAQI Army detonate weapons cache in Basra
• LAO PDR: Bomb clearance charity is thanked
• Professors, students build artificial legs for amputees in VIETNAM
• Situation of GAZA'S children still 'precarious'
• NEPALESE widow on compensation quest
• SRI LANKAN Supreme Court: Expedite demining for resettlement
• PHILIPPINES: Landmine Ban Draws House Support
• CAMBODIA: Explosive Harvest
• INDIA: Maoist Mine Traps in Saranda
• EU grants US$26m to ANGOLAN demining program
• The Anti-Personnel Mines Project

April '09

• SRI LANKA: Demining east will end soon
• Giving back in CAMBODIA
• PAKISTANI children mistake bomb for toy, 12 killed
• Bangkok to celebrate Mine Ban Treaty's 10th Anniversary
• Casualties continue in VIETNAM
• UGANDA: Dangers of unexploded ordnance in north
• Army 'Multimode' Raygun to target IEDs, other ordnance
• Child landmine victim speaks out
• NIGERIA clears Biafra war ERW
• Landmines still scar ANGOLA 7 years after peace
• US to donate $1.5m for munitions clearing in LEBANON
• Orphanage work was a revelation
• VIETNAM: PM ratifies foreign aid-financed projects
• INDIA: Spot weapons, win cash
• Mine-filled IRAQ to accelerate clearance
• CAMBODIA war survivors turn to music
• TURKISH military disposes of anti-personnel landmines
• Ohio airbase base plans explosives training range
• Demining story wins The Star journalist MPI Award
• Landmines: Kurdistan's hidden enemy
• JAPAN grants $5.6 million to CAMBODIA
• Landmine clearance funding in decline
• UN supports AFGHAN demining efforts
• UN: Children biggest victims of landmines, other ERW
• AUSTRALIAN government gives $2.4 million to IRAQI landmine survivors
• TAJIKISTAN remains largest mines concern
• Red Cross: More work needed on landmine clearance
• Clearing the legacies of war from AFGHANISTAN'S soil
• BURMA urged to stop landmine use
• Push to rid CYPRUS buffer zone of landmines by 2011
• GAZA: Access to buffer zone key to agricultural recovery
• Developing AFGHANISTAN into a peaceful and prosperous country
• International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
• SE ASIA: New mine victims reinforce need for treaty
• LEBANESE uncover weapons in south
• Mine accident in AFGHANISTAN still remembered by villagers
• JAPAN funds demining efforts in northern SRI LANKA
• INDIA: Local leader barely escapes landmine blast
• Economic crisis slows mine clearance, endangering lives (video)
• 'Lethal Legacy' documents clearance of 57k mines from LEBANON (video)

March '09

• INDIA: Three women injured in landmine blast
• JAPAN gives nearly $8 million boost for demining in Africa
• INDIA: Military denies landmine explosions responsible for forest fires
• SRI LANKA: Most landmines in Jaffna cleared
• Mine victim provides prostheses to other victims
• THAILAND helps to make a mine-free world
• Sir Bobby Charlton launches drive to find landmine breakthrough
• International Day for Mine Awareness: a mine-free world within reach (video)
• INDIAN Army porter dies in landmine blast
• HRW urges US, Obama administration to ban landmines
• GERMAN ambassador speaks on cooperation with ANGOLA
• JAPAN extends 300 million rupees for assistance in SRI LANKA
• Basra littered with mines, group says
• BRITISH demining experts to visit Falklands
• Mine victims say they are forgotten
• Four US-led soldiers killed in AFGHANISTAN
• CANADA probes whether blast killed AFGHAN children
• Third child dies after blast in AFGHAN village
• MOZAMBIQUE: Clearance priorities discussed
• ANGOLA: State Dept. issues $5 million for mine removal
• INDIA: 13 police escape landmine blast
• In Harm's Way: Video profiles MAG deminers (video)

February '09

• SLOVENIA to donate EUR819,000 to ITF in 2009
• UNMAO SUDAN winter 2009 newsletter
• ITF celebrates 10th anniversary, devises new plans
• GAMBIA: Seven die in desert after vehicle hits mine
• Profile of TDI, clearance company
• SODI continues funding clearance in VIETNAM
• YEMEN: Government officials meet to discuss national mine-action plan
• AZERBAIJAN: 685,261 sq. meters cleared in January
• Anti-landmine vehicle saves police from blast
• ANGOLA: Demining ends in area now declared mine-free
• YEMEN, CROATIA sign mine-action agreement
• JAPAN funds demining projects in TIMOR-LESTE
• MOZAMBIQUE given more time for mine clearance
• Students in GEORGIA receive textbooks, MRE
• The forgotten 'victim' of the northern UGANDAN war
• ZAMBIA clears landmines
• SOMALIA blast and aftermath leaves at least 20 dead
• January 2009 mine-action technology newsletter released (PDF)
• GERMANY provides demining supplies, other aid to GEORGIA
• ANGOLA: Military deminers, national demining center receive equipment
• CHINA presents demining equipment to SUDAN
• ANGOLA: Demining officials deactivate explosive devices
• SRI LANKA: US and JAPAN pledge demining funds
• GAZA: Mine-action logisitcs update
• PAKISTAN: Landmine blast wounds 14
• Giant rats sniff out MOZAMBIQUE'S mines
• SRI LANKA: BELGIUM to support demining process
• Demining to begin in north SRI LANKA
• NIGERIA: Government clears mines
• NEPAL: Army completes demining of Siraha forest
• New radio technology improves landmine detection
• ANGOLA: Provincial Governor Reiterates Support to demining teams

January '09

• UXOInfo.com resleases January newsletter
• New framework for SRI LANKAN demining
• Save the Children helping Gazans return to school despite danger
• Colombia Army finds FARC landmine factory
• French aid mission, deminers head to EGYPT
• INDIA: Six policemen killed in landmine blast
• Mine machine to flail air range
• ANGOLA: Landmine action committee assess activities
• Afghanistan still tops landmine casualty list
• Demining in MOZAMBIQUE to continue until 2014
• UN appeal for funds to clear Afghan landmines
• PAKISTAN: Two children injured in landmine blast
• ANGOLA: Demining institute trains sappers in safe techniques
• Landmine kills two soldiers In PAKISTAN
• KOSOVO: 6 injured in blasts
• VIETNAM: PM endorses $16 mil. project to preserve world heritage site
• U.S. Army destroys last landmine containing nerve agents
• BHUTAN: Communist guerrillas kill four forest guards
• CHINA ends landmine mission
• MAG worker killed by landmine in Halabja
• 13 mines blasted in AZERBAIJAN in 2008
• Landmine clearance work to begin in Falklands after quarter century wait

December '08

• INDIA: 20-kg landmine recovered
• SOMALIA: Explosion Kills Three Ethiopian Soldiers
• SOMALILAND records drop in landmine accidents
• MOLDOVA troops complete IRAQ pullout
• UK commits to demining Falklands
• SOMALIA: 6 die in Mogadishu landmine blasts
• CAMBODIA: Local demining goes to the dogs
• BiH to withdraw military demining specialists from Iraq in December
• JORDAN: All-female demining team begins work
• Mine casualties in BURMA nearly double
• PALESTINE: Seven injured after triggering mine in buffer zone
• Overall funds for UN demining languish
• UN prepares handover of mine action to SUDAN
• RUSSIA will continue clearance in Serbia until 2012
• CAMBODIA: mine clearance cut because of financial crisis
• VIETNAM: Brother of mine survivor is top of EOD class
• US Defense Dept. plans live tests with MineWolf
• PHILIPPINES: Army recovers rebel landmine, ammunition
• US destroys last nerve-gas landmine
• AZERBAIJAN: Nearly 1.2 mil. sq. m. cleared in October
• COLOMBIAN drug gangs' mine use 'similar to a war zone'
• SWITZERLAND calls for greater efforts to ban landmines
• Half of war casualties in SRI LANKA due to small mine
• JAPANESE-funded clearance enables grassroots development

November '08

• Over 150,000 landmines defused in SRI LANKA
• MAG's work to continue benefiting poorest in Quang Tri, VIETNAM
• SOUTH LEBANON: U.S. Embassy inaugurates new building for development cooperative
• Injured soldier tells tale of landmine blast
• UN Secretary-General: Pact on ERW a vital tool
• IRAQ: MAG aids village reconstruction in Dohuk
• MILF commits anew to international humanitarian law on landmines
• Anticipating downward trends in mine action spending, Mechem expands services
• U.S. Soldiers in IRAQ battle a dangerous foe under the ground
• UNAMID police advisers conduct mine awareness campaign
• Planned EOD Exhibit at the U.S. Navy Memorial
• Wartime ammunition found in north NAMIBIA
• Assisting refugees' safe return to southern SUDAN
• New dogs needed to sniff out landmines in CAMBODIA
• Taliban commander perishes by his own landmine
• PHILIPPINE military condemns continued use of landmines in NPA raids
• CZECH KFOR troops conduct mine awareness program
• RWANDA: GERMANY pledges €300K for demining
• ARMENIA: Exploding landmines in Karabakh continue to maim
• SRI LANKA: MAG's impact in Batticaloa
• INDIA: Four jailed for landmine explosion in West Bengal
• SWEDISH demining team deploys to SUDAN
• Rats and robots sniff out landmines
• GERMANY allots €200,000 for mine clearing in GEORGIA
• SUDAN: UNAMID and Mine Action Team detonate unexploded ordnance
• Mine action reaches remote AFGHAN villages
• Arms Control: Arms Trade Treaty
• Illicit weapons put UN peacekeepers at high risk
• Naomi Watts to play landmine campaigner
• UK supports vulnerable GEORGIANS
• AFGHANISTAN: Disability deprives children of education
• Tutu urges support for UN small arms control treaty
• CHILE demining with sophisticated Pentagon equipment

October '08

• CAMBODIA accused of planting new mines
• Coroner condemns minefield rescue
• AFGHAN amputee avoids begging with bike service
• A slow, wary return for GEORGIAN refugees
• Four guilty, one released in deminer killing
• U.S. approves additional $825,000 for demining in LEBANON
• GERMAN man receives world's first double-arm transplant
• U.K. trade controls on small arms, MANPADS and cluster munitions go into effect
• CZECH REPUBLIC gives another 100,000 Euros to ITF
• AFGHANISTAN: MACA hands over cleared land to 8 communities
• A Disarming Line of Work
• GEORGIA, US Sign Agreement on Demining
• SRI LANKA and UNHCR, "We are partners in the true sense"
• Rail to be Cleared in SOUTH SUDAN
• Major project to identify, destroy unexploded ordnance across JORDAN
• JAPAN may slash funds for clearing landmines in CAMBODIA
• Confronting remnants of war
• Foreign Minister plays down landmine case on CAMBODIAN Border
• AZERBAIJAN: ANAMA cleared 1,695,875 square miles of mines and UXO last month
• GEORGIA/RUSSIA: ICRC continues to assist the most vulnerable
• Landmine victims become survivors at CAMBODIA'S Miss Landmine contest
• Award-winning U.N. deminer wants to donate his prize money
• TAIWAN: Demining in Kinmen 25 percent complete
• Fighting spirit: What the landmine doesn't destroy
• Children Against Landmines chapter hosts "Strut-Your-Mutt" event
• Mary evokes memory of Diana with landmine clearing in UGANDA
• PHILIPPINES: Landmine attack in North Cotabato foiled
• UGANDA embarks on demining
• Making IRAQ a safer place, one enemy weapon at a time
• SOUTH AMERICAN soldiers find new hope at Mayo Clinic
• FRANCE urges ISRAEL to hand over LEBANON sub-munitions map
• TURKEY plans landmine clearance
• ANGOLA: Mapping the hidden enemy
• ANGOLA: Over 4000 victims of landmines assisted
• SUDAN: Southern town celebrates end of demining
• IRAQI police discover cache, largest find to date
• Bombs into angels: Sculptor melts weapons to make art, peace
• DynCorp International wins new contract for demining and explosives removal
• iRobot receives $5.8 million order from UNITED STATES
• SUDAN: Responding to an accidental explosion
• INDIA: Landmine, detonators seized in Bihar
• Situation Report on the situation in GEORGIA (23 Sept 2008)
• Arms Control Today Q&A with U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama
• Joint venture undertaken to produce anti-landmine vehicles

September '08

• AUSTRALIAN photo exhibit: CAMBODIA's tragic legacy
• Soap company cleans up landmines
• NORWAY to assist GEORGIA in demining
• Landmine survivors tell their story in pictures
• California woman mortgages house to help landmine victim from ZIMBABWE
• Award given to mine action programme in southern LEBANON
• MND-B Soldiers find ordnance, detain 4 in Baghdad
• SUDAN: Land returned to Kapoeta community
• LEBANON: MAG improving quality of life in Sejoud
• More CAMBODIANS die from lightning than from landmines
• Video of Handicap International's Awareness Day
• Two TURKISH soldiers killed in landmine explosion
• CAMBODIA's dog-tired demining mission needs fresh recruits, cash
• U.K.: Royal Marine soldier Mark Ormrod back at post after Taliban blast
• IRAN/IRAQ: Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan destroys anti-personnel mines
• Anti-tank mine kills 5, wounds 3 in CAMBODIA
• UNICEF leads campaign to get displaced children in GEORGIA back to school
• Historic clearance of deadly minefield in SOUTH SUDAN
• SRI LANKA: Demining in Jaffna High Security Zone underway
• IRAQ: Mine detection dogs arrive in Chamchamal
• Stay off firing range, Montana Guard warns
• NIGER: Army seizes outlawed anti-personnel mines
• UN peacekeep killed in LEBANON
• Kurdish group destroys landmine stockpile
• JAPAN funds humanitarian demining in North and East
• CHAD: unexploded ordnance kills one, injures five; 95 victims this year.
• Demining operations underway in Basra
• COLOMBIA to send demining experts to AFGHANISTAN
• US search continues for WWII Ordnance
• UN warns GEORGIA returnees of uncleared land mines
• Contractors to hunt for munitions in US
• Responding to the emergency needs of IDPs in SUDAN
• JORDAN clears minefields in the South
• GERMANY supports mine clearance in GEORGIA
• Bomb squad disposes of unexploded ordnance in Oklahoma
• SOMALIA: Five arrested over threats to NGO workers
• Kidnapped AFGHAN deminers should be immediately released
• MILF denies using landmines
• CHILE not expected to meet 2012 demining deadline
• JAPANESE NGO worker killed in AFGHANISTAN
• SUDAN: Responding to the emergency needs IDPs
• ANGOLA: 'Vote in safety' is MAG's election message
• Light metals against bombs and grenades
• SUDAN: Maximizing impact in Juba
• CHAD children help IRISH bomb experts

August '08

• "Explosive" paper set to save lives
• NPA SUDAN starts mine clearance in RWANDA
• ANGOLA: Over 120,000 Landmines destroyed countrywide
• SERBIA needs $31 billion for demining activities
• ZIMBABWE president praises Army's demining efforts
• Peak Resources enters exclusive landmine detection technology development agreement
• UN cleans Abeyi, SUDAN, of unexploded weapons
• Conflict in GEORGIA: UXO poses high risk for civilians, displaced populations
• Children are main victims of CHAD violence
• Southern communities in JORDAN welcome return of mine-free land
• Congress Considering UXO Technology Transfer Initiatives
• COLOMBIA may send demining troops to AFGHANISTAN
• CHAD: Deaths from UXO on the rise says MSF
• NEPAL expresses commitment to becoming mine free
• MAG saves lives in Pirijan, IRAQ
• Binding treaty eludes small arms trade
• Nearly 1.4M sq m of AZERBAIJAN cleared of mines and UXO last month
• Conventional weapons destruction, landmine clearance in SOMALIA
• EOD mission changes during IRAQ deployment, public safety still protected
• Golden West Humanitarian Foundation helps educate people, remove landmines
• Farming a deadly risk in mine-laden southern SENEGAL
• IRAQ: Soldiers seize cache, discover UXO
• Old rocket blamed for CHAD blast
• Mortars and ammunition removed from IRAQI museum
• Army recovers NPA bomb components in PHILIPPENES
• Experts say KOSOVO to be clear of mines by 2013
• Daily brief on COTE D'IVOIRE includes SA/LW update
• Successful small arms conference may boost prospects of 'arms trade treaty'
• Danish Demining Organization finds human skeleton in SRI LANKA
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund dedicates center in VIETNAM
• EGYPT to start demining northern coast next September
• Operation to comb out small arms to be carried out
• AFGHANISTAN: Historic city of Bamyan to be cleared of all mines
• ANGOLA: 10 demining machines expected from JAPAN
• YEMEN strives to stop small arms proliferation
• RWANDA destroys over 100 tons of light weapons, ammunition
• CAMBODIA: JAPAN gives $750,000 to demine Battambang
• SRI LANKA: Demining in Jaffna peninsula likely to stall
• THAILAND, CAMBODIA disagree on border
• RUSSIAN mine clearers to disable NATO bombs in SERBIA
• SUDAN: Historic clearance of Kapoeta minefield completed
• Photo gallery: CAMBODIAN minefield scenes

July '08

• More than 6.5 million square meters of land in AFGHANISTAN cleaned up from explosive devices
• Quakers establish fund to help rid world's hotspots of landmines
• SOMALIA: Puntland authorities destroy anti-personnel mines
• CAMBODIA: Many landmines have been destroyed but work still remains
• CANADIAN helps victims of landmines
• 2,500 mines cleared from northern IRAQ
• UN official: AFGHANISTAN making significant progress in mine clearance
• ANGOLA: Halo Trust deactivates over 2,000 landmines
• U.S. Marine Corps orders "green" training ammo
• CANADIAN math students hunt UXO
• A recent history of the disability rights movement in EL SALVADOR
• Former EGYPT MP calls for landmine removal
• JAPAN finances education, demining projects in CAMBODIA
• IRAQI-KURDISH landmine official discusses clearance program
• Third Biennial Meeting on small arms and light weapons
• 24 INDIAN policemen killed in landmine explosion
• PHILIPPINES: Rebels refute Army's claim on landmine use
• Bomb detector was front for scam
• Rehabilitation project launched for child victims of landmines
• Bomb-disposal robots get new life sniffing out chemicals
• U.N. Sec-Gen: Universal action needed to halt illegal proliferation of SA/LW
• ITALY contributes additional funds to OAS demining programs
• SUDAN: MAG returns more land in Kapoeta
• DynCorp International builds mine awareness in AFGHANISTAN
• 15,000 mines still exist in Uganda-Kabwegere
• European Commission offers new landmine destruction project to Belarus
• Wartime bomb kills three in Vietnam
• UK terror attack survivor to help landmine victims in CAMBODIA
• TURKEY clears SYRIA border mines, boosts trade hopes
• CAMBODIA: Clearance helps hundreds in Malai district
• Expolsions rock old BULGARIAN munitions depot
• UEFA/ICRC "Score for the Red Cross" humanitarian campaign a success
• Central African survivors' project under way
• AFGHANISTAN: Landmines impede civilians' return to volatile Arghandab
• BURUNDI demining mission aims to defuse explosive tensions
• Center for training on neutralizing UXO to be established in AZERBAIJAN
• Soccer star Bobby Charltan launches anti-landmine campaign
• Searching in ANGOLA for the hidden enemy: landmines
• Baku hosts seminar of NATO/PfP Trust Fund
• Kidnapped DANISH, SWEDISH aid workers freed in SOMALIA
• Deadly Harvest: Clearing IRAQ'S killing fields
• Mirror therapy to help treat afflictions, including phantom limb pain (read to end for applicability to amputees)
• AFGHANISTAN: Volatile security hampers United Nation's ability to clear landmines
• New generation of mine clearing dogs born in CAMBODIA
• Wives and girlfriends of footballers pose for photos to aid mine victims
• ETHIOPIA: LSN awards members for good results at sporting event
• IRISH Minister of State pledges new support for landmine victims in ANGOLA

June '08

• Indian Army hosts camp for landmine blasts victims
• Landmine clearing saves lives in NEPAL
• IRAN: Hidden menace of "iron soldiers"
• UNDP demining near Yeri, CYPRUS
• CHECHEN landmine survivors score goals on the football pitch
• Environmentally friendly bombs planned
• CAMBODIAN deminers return from U.N. peacekeeping missions
• Route clearance team makes IRAQ safer
• Photo series: CAMBODIAN Female demining team
• BURUNDI: MAG helps gov't reduce threat of weapons and stockpiles
• AFGHANISTAN: ISAF troops providing awareness on UXO
• A legacy of war worth cheering for
• U.N. mine clearance expert talk
• Blasts in AFGHAN capital were controlled, says official
• Photo journal: Demining BURUNDI
• INDIA: Three troopers killed in Maoist blast in Chhattisgarh
• AFGHANISTAN: Designed to maim
• THAILAND: Elephant's landmine injury fixed with a fake leg
• RED CROSS urging fans to help landmine victims
• VIETNAM: Blast kills two shell-recyclers in central highlands
• AFGHANISTAN: Digging for life
• Casualties from landmines, other explosives in sharp decline
• Iraqi kids dream of artificial limbs
• UGANDA: 'The forgotten victim' of the Northern War
• NEPAL: Demining under way but threat of casualties persists
• MAG LAO female team leader makes her mark
• Humanitarian mine action in DR CONGO
• UK seeks extension on FALKLANDS mine clearance
• Landmine-sniffing rats of MOZAMBIQUE
• Scrap metal search a risky business
• INDIA-PAKISTAN border fence affecting wildlife
• NDC explodes 95 unexploded shells in Aden, YEMEN
• EU allocates 2.6 million euro to help tackle problems of UXO in SERBIA
• The nose knows: mine-sniffing dogs shows skills at Parkway school
• Amputee and IRISH rescuer swap memories
• Digging up mines buries war horror
• Former AFGHAN landmine experts retrain for new employment
• Unexploded munitions claim lives in VIETNAM
• New weapon against mines in AFGHANISTAN
• Demining and destruction of unsafe explosives in NEPAL
• AFGHAN mine victims proudly work as bicycle couriers

May '08

• Students host blood drive to raise awareness about landmines
• DR CONGO: Diving for bombs
• Demining of Persian Gulf under way
• Metal scavengers risk lives on US bomb sites
• EOD essential to safety in Kosovo
• 60% of demining in Angola to be complete by August 2008
• UK troops makes explosives safe in Basra operation
• Senegal ratifies convention on small arms
• Weapons removal and safety education aided by U.S. grants
• Egypt: Clearing mines, helping victims (includes video)
• SENEGAL: Lack of peace accord hampers demining in Casamance
• Old rocket leaves 3 AFGHAN kids dead
• Juanes impresses during four-night L.A. run
• Fourth former Khmer Rouge arrested in killing of BRITISH mine clearer
• ANGOLA: Welfare minister starts visit to learn of demining progress
• UGANDA study: 90% of female mine victims divorced
• Back into war with just one leg
• Film documenting CAMBODIAN landmine casualties ends shoot in Dublin
• BURUNDI aims to rid itself of landmines
• SENEGAL: Landmines claim new victims in Casamance
• MOZAMBIQUE wants more time for demining
• CHINA donates 600,000 USD for demining
• 2,500 mines cleared from northern IRAQ
• ICBL urges all countries to join newly enacted UN disability rights convention
• CAMBODIAN embassy in Washington plans wine tasting for mine clearing
• Landmine blast kills 9 in PAKISTANI border town
• SUDAN: 'I have a mine in my living room, what should I do?
• LEBANON: MAG cleared 287,255 sq meters during March
• Rats to de-mine northern region of UGANDA
• Plans to clear landmines on the FALKLAND ISLANDS

April '08

• Mongooses 'can sniff-out landmines'
• Europe and UN to help JORDAN clear border landmines
• "Fragments" art exhibit to return to LONDON
• RUSSIA to clear landmines in SERBIA
• CAMBODIAN mine legacy lives on after Pol Pot
• Slideshow: UXO in DARFUR
• US NGOs donate wheelchairs to poor in VIETNAM
• WEST AFRICA: Renewed call to ratify Ecowas Arms Convention
• NORWAY: Ski trek for landmine charity is nearing finish
• UN mine service considers new ways to clear land more effectively
• CONGO: Hidden killers on the loose
• UGANDA: Landmine victims appeal for help
• IRAQ: Two thousand demining jobs up for grabs
• GAMBIA: 3 months after Gilanfari landmine explosion, no sign of demining
• European football teams team up with the ICRC to help victims of landmines in AFGHANISTAN
• UN says unexploded ordnance in IRAQ hampers development projects
• Charity boxing match scores a knockout for landmines
• Landmines exist in nearly every governorate of YEMEN
• SPLA destroys landmines in SUDAN
• AUSTRALIA commits $10m to clear AFGHANISTAN landmines
• UNICEF boosts mine awareness in IRAQ
• IRAQ marks international day for mine awareness
• Landmine victim helping CYPRUS become mine free
• U.N.: AFGHAN mines killed more than 600 in '07
• The long, long cleanup in LAOS
• Ahead of International Day, senior UN official urges support for mine action
• International day for mine awareness and assistance in mine action observed in SUDAN
• 2008: Crunch time for mine action
• KPC marks United Nations International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action in KOSOVO
• International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action observed in LEBANON
• Jaipur foot for ANGOLA landmine victims
• FRANCE recognizes International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
• Int'l Mine Action Day marked at OSCE-supported centre in TAJIKISTAN
• UGANDA: Landmine programme has saved millions
• Landmines no threat to IDPs in UGANDA
• ANGOLA: Amputee beauty pageant crowns Miss Landmine 2008
• PAKISTAN: Landmines ruin lives, leave hundreds dead
• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marks International Mine Action Day
• Senior UN official marks International Mine Action Day
• Girl Scouts Do A World Of Good
• SUDAN demolishes over 6000 landmines in Juba
• CANADA: University of Waterloo students develop new landmine technology
• Dith Pran, Photojournalist and Survivor of the Killing Fields, Dies at 65
• UN mine expert loses part of leg in Cyprus blast

March '08

• Football's Ronaldo named Red Cross ambassador for landmine victims campaign
• CANADA continues its support for OAS mine action program
• CHILE to spend millions removing borders' landmines
• ANGOLA to host landmine pageant
• Feds commission NMC students to conduct study on WWII ordnance
• Two more deminers killed in AFGHANISTAN
• Women join demining charge in south SUDAN
• Five Afghan deminers shot dead
• OCHA Situation Report #2: ALBANIA ammunition depot explosion
• NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency experts to visit Azerbaijan
• YEMEN: Landmine-free by 2009?
• OCHA Situation Report: ALBANIA ammunition depot explosion
• Private companies to remove landmines in KOREA
• BOSNIA blast kills two mine clearers, injures one
• GERMANY donates mine detectors to ETHIOPIA
• LEBANON: Farmers Struggle to Stay on Their Land
• Nobel laureate speaks on landmines at Cornell University
• New York art exhibit raises funds, awareness for landmine problem
• Albania mourns 17 killed in ammunition depot blast; 3 arrested, accused of negligence
• Eight killed in Ethiopian landmine blast
• IRELAND pledges 2 million euros towards global landmine clearance
• Foreign Policy publishes photo essay on MineTech's clearance in IRAQ
• U.S. contributes major boost for OAS demining in COLOMBIA
• BOSNIA: Buried landmines impede tourism in and threaten locals
• CAMBODIA: Promoting economic security among landmine victims
• ITALY continues its aid to OAS mine action efforts in COLOMBIA
• Removing debris of war opens mountain sanctuary in AFGHANISTAN
• Landmine photos show remnants of war in VIETNAM
• California lecturer organizes campaign to remove landmines in AFGHANISTAN
• DynCorp International employee barters with AFGHAN children using soccer balls for safety
• COLOMBIA: Alarming increase in landmine casualties
• YEMEN uses German Shephards to find long-buried landmines
• BURMA tops list for landmines
• United States Civil War Relics Collector Killed by Ordnance
• NICARAGUA: Landmine-free by 2009?
• Sudan: The Battle is Gone But Landmines Remain

February '08

• ANGOLA: Government to set up 11 demining brigades countrywide
• Some 1,500 COLOMBIANS leave homes for fear of minefields
• DR Congo: Camp Ngashi clearance completed
• EGYPT: Unexploded mines block development in northwest
• NGO clears IRAQI minefield
• Tropical soils impede landmine detection
• Climbers call to help clear landmines blocking way to AFGHAN mountain
• IRAQ: Government plans massive mine clearance operation
• SUDAN: The battle is gone but landmines remain
• Ridding the community of SALW in KURDISTAN region
• IRANIAN landmines found in taliban commander's house
• Foreign doctors killed by landmine in SOMALIA
• UGANDA: Over 900 mines destroyed in Acholi
• United States Efforts to Protect International Aviation from Man-Portable Air Defense Systems Attacks
• Double amputee walks again with the help of bluetooth technology
• Some Countries to Miss Mine Treaty Deadlines
• Wartime bombs and landmines still plague central provinces of VIETNAM
• More Land To Be Cleared Of UXO in LAOS

January '08

• CHILE removes mines from BOLIVIAN border
• ANGOLA: Over 100 AT, 250 AP mines deactivated
• ANGOLA: Over 130 landmine victims re-integrated
• AFGHANISTAN: Landmines and UXO kill and maim hundreds in 2007
• Reporter killed by landmine in NIGER
• IRAQI civil defense corps hands over large explosives cache to KAZAKH soldiers
• CAMBODIA: Chilling radio ad donated in support of landmine victims
• NIGER on landmine alert
• SRI LANKAN minister dies after landmine attack
• Wartime bombs and landmines still plaguing the central provinces of VIETNAM
• Jumping across LONDON, raising money for landmine cause
• LAO PDR strengthens UXO clearance
• Donor funds needed in MAURITANIA
• AZERBAIJAN needs $600M to clear occupied lands
• AFGHAN forces discover stockpile of APMs
• ANGOLA hails new success in demining
• How Does It Stack Up? The Mine Ban Convention at 10
• MAG Removes 100,000 Pieces of UXO in VIETNAM
• INDIA has 4 Million Mines Stockpiled
• Two Killed While Demining in BOSNIA
• HAWAIIAN Nature Reserve Reopens after UXO Clearance
• U.S. Still Top Financial Contributor to Humanitarian Mine Action
• New Jersey church donates magnetic detectors for demining in TAJIKISTAN
• Bombing in ALGERIA kills nine UN staff members
• YEMEN: 5 die every month as a result of landmines, report says

December '07

• Deminers 'need one more year' to clear cluster bombs
• A decade of demining
• ZAMBIA facing landmine threat
• U.S. tests anti-IED laser
• GAMBIA: Canadian NGO, UNICEF launch landmines education
• THAI deminers badly underfunded
• Hailstorms set off cluster bombs in southern LEBANON
• Charting progress and challenges at 10th anniversary of the Mine Ban Convention
• MOROCCO backs efforts to clear landmines
• ANGOLAN mine victims compete in beauty pagaent
• UN proposes US$404 million initiative to remove landmines
• Cornell engineering students design mechanical minesweeper

November '07

• Disabled World Cup for volleyball kicks off in CAMBODIA
• Ex-Supreme's singer raises mine awareness
• IED attacks decline in Iraq (link to short description with audio news report)
• Funding available for environmental R&D; seeking proposals on UXO remediation
• Landmine casualties drop in 2006, victim aid often insufficient
• BRITAIN, others likely to miss 2009 deadline for clearing landmines
• Pupils' landmine film to screen in LONDON
• Forty million mines destroyed under Ban Convention
• LSN co-founder and mine survivor calls for end to 'victim mentality'
• CAMBODIA landmines clearance pushed back 10 years
• Still a long way to go for BOSNIA to reach mine-free goals
• Art inspired by landmine victims
• BAHRAIN to ratify mine ban
• BURUNDI: Project begins with MANPADS destruction
• Nearly 1,600 displaced Afghans return home this year with UN assistance
• YEMEN: Situation could worsen in north amid claims of new landmines being laid
• Lebanon: UNIFIL's Indian battallion treats over 80 mine victims in Jaipur foot clinic
• Turning CAMBODIA's minefields into gardens
• Mine targeting police forces in INDIA injures bus passengers
• Cornell engineering students design unmanned minesweeping vehicle
• MOZAMBIQUE sets five-year target to clear landmines
• Over 2000 explosive devices deactivated in ANGOLA

October '07

• Nearly 1,600 displaced Afghans return home this year with UN assistance
• INDIA: Valley rebels shed mines from arsenal
• FRANCE tells ALGERIA location of landmines
• Fields of peril in AZERBAIJAN
• Educating NEPALESE youths about the dangers of explosives
• SUDAN: Landmine clearing operation complete work over 223 km in eastern region
• Villagers flee MYANMAR's deadly landmines
• Speakers to tell 'cluster bomb' story
• AZERBAIJAN: new play areas protect children from landmines
• BULGARIA contributes to a SALW destruction project in ALBANIA
• Landmines killed or wounded 2000 in DRC
• SOMALIA: Puntland authorities grant unprecedented access to stockpiles
• UAE task force clears over 6,800 mines from LEBANON
• Explosion in MOZAMBIQUE forces evacuation of neaby families
• CANADIAN troops unveil new weapon against IEDs
• UGANDA: IDPs returning home still face many challenges
• AFGHANISTAN: Strategic Kabul hill demined
• ECUADOR delivers report on destruction of over 1,000 landmines
• IRAQ: Agriculture benefits from clearance operations
• New threat in NIGER as flooding displaces landmines
• University in CANADA hosts photo exhibit of landmine victims
• High tech's slow march in landmine campaign
• Robots to the rescue in mine action
• LEBANON: Yohmer village - a year on
• SLOVENIAN-run ITF and UNMAS sign cooperation agreement
• EU donates €2 million for mine action in YEMEN
• YEMEN: Lawyers seek settlement for landmine victims
• UGANDA: Gulu landmine victims earn a living from clay
• UN Mine Action Team calls for Cluster Bomb Treaty

September '07

• Poisoned by war, LEBANON reaps meagre harvest
• AFGHANISTAN: Last 3 kidnapped deminers freed
• SERBIA to learn where bombs were dropped
• Part of AFGHAN capital now free of landmines
• 3 casualties in explosion in VIETNAM (link no longer active)
• UN experts enter LEBANON battle camp
• Filmmakers and cast to donate movie profits to demining in former YUGOSLAVIA
• AFGHANISTAN: Gunmen free 10 abducted deminers
• ANGOLA: Call to ex-Plan fighters to help demine country
• AFGHAN war amputees become prosthesis pros (link no longer active)
• LEBANON: ECHO funded mine/UXO clearance project in the Tyre region
• U.S. Senate passes bill on cluster bomb use
• Amputee to walk for charity in CAMBODIA
• Deminers demand security guarantees before resuming work in Kandahar, AFGHANISTAN
• Coalition Munitions Clearance Prorgram security contractor killed in IRAQ
• ANGOLA: 250 kilometers of road opened by Mines Advisory Group
• TAIWAN: Vice Minister Yang signs anti-landmine resolution
• COLOMBIAN rebels increase landmine use, raising casualties
• Groundbreaking radar-based landmine detection system developed

August '07

• NEPAL: Committee to be formed to aid landmine victims
• Cluster bomb kills one demining expert and wounds three others in LEBANON
• U.S. landmine clearance to expand in VIETNAM
• Vehicle-mounted laser pod could destroys bombs
• IRAQ: First phase of Landmine Impact Survey (LIS) complete
• Landmines uprooted by floods pose serious risk in NEPAL
• MOZAMBIQUE says landmine deadline will not be met (link no longer active)
• Cougar armored trucks to stalk mines on the battlefield
• U.S. condemns terrorist use of landmines in COLOMBIA
• Mobile movie theater conducts mine risk education in LEBANON
• Three deminers kidnapped and murdered in AFGHANISTAN
• Conventional weapons being destroyed globally with U.S. aid
• Professor invents device to aid landmine survivors in CAMBODIA
• European Commission signs contract for demining of CYPRUS buffer zone
• Mine-resistant vehicle to provide protection for U.S. troops (link no longer active)
• COLOMBIA: Mine use skyrockets, creates world leader in mine victims
• MAPA makes sweeping progress in AFGHANISTAN
• UK and KENYA share Firmin Sword of Peace
• CHINA clearing landmines on Sino-Vietnamese border
• Cheap microphones listen for landmines
• Landmines in GUINEA BISSAU: The forgotten crisis?
• NORTHERN IRELAND: Student wins grant for inventing limb
• French deminer with U.N. peacekeepers killed in SOUTH LEBANON explosion

July '07

• Rats and cats team up to sniff out landmines
• African elephants learn to avoid landmines in war-torn ANGOLA
• LEBANON: Commercials to warn children of danger of unexploded ordnance
• Costs of war and recovery in LEBANON and ISRAEL
• Portable robots intercept IEDs in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN
• Over 600 tons of weapons destroyed in ANGOLA
• Illinois man builds landmine detonation device
• UXO disposal class is "booming"
• AFGHANISTAN: Monthly landmine casualties down, says UN
• U.S. Senate considers curtailing purchase of cluster bombs using American military aid
• The Sole of Africa launches global landmine initiative for Africa
• U.S. Commemorates Small Arms Destruction Day with "Millionth Weapon Destruction" Events
• The NETHERLANDS suspends the use of cluster bombs
• U.S. Senate considers cluster munitions restrictions in new foreign operations appropriations bill
• 16 abducted AFGHAN deminers released by Taliban
• U.S. makes statement on cluster munitions

June '07

• Red Cross announces new landmine awareness program in ARMENIA
• U.S. elementary school sponsors mine detection dog (link no longer active)
• Taliban forces expected to release captive deminers
• Mine action in AFGHANISTAN allows 1000 families to return home
• Refugees in LEBANON return to threat of UXO
• NEPAL: Clearance of explosives a post-conflict challenge
• JORDAN offers to help KUWAIT with ERW removal
• Two casualties in landmine clearance accident in BOSNIA
• JAPAN to back ban on cluster bombs
• Alliance of BURMESE opposition organisations issues position on landmines
• U.K. offers demining equipment to NEPAL army
• U.S. Surgeon helps disabled get to their feet in VIETNAM
• UNMACA and AFGHANISTAN government sign Memorandum of Understanding for victim assistance and mine risk education
• UNITED STATES making progress in elimination of shoulder-fired missiles.
• Unexploded ordnance hampering aid deliveries to refugees in LEBANON
• Researchers pursue truly functional prosthetic arm
• NEPAL: Some 12,500 landmines planted by insurgents
• SOUTH AFRICAN "scrap" turns out to be live mortar
• U.S. Department of State Awards $2.2 million to Deal With ERW and Landmines
• Croatian mines replaced by wines
• U.S. Army allows amputee soldiers to return to active duty (link no longer active)
• New Jersey beach re-opens after nearly 3 months of unexploded munitions disposal
• A second provincial governor donates land to injured deminers in AFGHANISTAN
• 68 countries push for ban on cluster munitions
• CANADIAN soldier/landmine victim still game for action (link no longer active)
• CROATIAN bees sniff out landmines

May '07

• Provincial govenor in AFGHANISTAN donates land to 26 injured deminers
• New grants to deal with explosives remnants of war and landmines
• Mine kills 9 policemen in INDIA
• ANGOLA: Soldiers rehabilitate road, bridges
• Six soldiers killed in TURKEY landmine blast
• NIGER: Aid workers in north threatened by carjacking, fresh landmines
• SRI LANKA roadside bomb, clash kill 4 soldiers
• UGANDA: Bombs after war
• More UAE demining personnel arrive in LEBANON
• Cluster bombs cause decades of harm, says study
• Report indicates 400 million people live in "minefields"
• FINLAND does not endorse total ban of cluster weapons
• Honor for injured mine clearing expert
• TURKEY: Two soldiers killed by landmine
• Soldier loses foot to landmine
• Mine explosion wounds 3 children in SOMALIA
• SRI LANKA: STF uncovers a claymore mine and a pressure mine
• ANGOLA: Mechanised demining programme launched
• An all-female team works precisely and fearlessly to clear minefields in rural CAMBODIA
• GICHD: A Guide to Mine Action and Explosive Remnants of War - 3rd Revised Edition
• Landmine blast wounds 4 policemen in SOMALIA

April '07

• UN asks ISRAELIS for locations of cluster attacks
• Armed group to plant more anti-personnel landmines in SRI LANKA
• African and European Unions unite to clear African continent of landmines (link no longer active)
• First national capacity for weapons clearance established in WESTERN SAHARA
• BELGIAN Defense Minister demands that ISRAEL pay for cluster munition clean-up
• Landmines still killing unsuspecting people in NEPAL (link no longer active)
• The human impact of cluster munitions
• UNICEF fights landmines in Vietnam
• US funding support for humanitarian demining in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• UN Secretary-General calls for elimination of landmines
• ISRAELI Defense Secretary admits cluster bomb use a "mistake"
• Press Announcement from RONCO based on comments made at memorial service held in Kabul for the 7 Afghans killed in the deminer attack
• Landmines still a crucial threat in southern SUDAN
• UGANDAN survivors plead for landmine production ban (link no longer active)
• Richard Kidd cites significant progress in removing landmines
• 7 Afghans including 6 deminers working for RONCO killed in Taliban attack
• Landmines threaten the lives of children in COLOMBIA (link no longer active)
• Swiss deminers clear path for 70,000 in LAOS (link no longer active)
• Lack of international assistance plagues TAJIKISTAN mine action capabilities
• UN commits to renewed efforts in SUDAN on Mine Awareness Day
• 170 CAMBODIAN soldiers receive mine clearance training from INDIA
• UXO threat looms after recent Kinshasa Conflict in CONGO (link no longer active)

March '07

• NEW ZEALAND work clearing cluster bombs in LEBANON is much appreciated
• Clearing landmines in VIETNAM
• UNICEF Situation Report MOZAMBIQUE, 22-25 March 2007
• Landmines still kill in southeast TURKEY
• Partial UK ban on cluster munitions falls short of target
• UN Secretary-General criticizes ISRAEL and LEBANON (link no longer active)
• CLUSTER MUNITION INTERACTIVE MAP
• FINLAND'S prime minister hopefuls debate postponing signing the Mine Ban Convention in 2016
• Two minefields discovered in UGANDA
• Mine clearance poses security challenges in TURKEY
• Schonstedt Instruments donates demining equipment to KENYA (link no longer active)
• CAMBODIA calls for united front on landmines from four members of ASEAN that have not signed Mine Ban Convention (link no longer active)
• BELGIUM criminalizes investment in cluster bomb manufacturers
• ISRAEL claims that SYRIANS threw 10 mines into area near Golan Heights on Saturday afternoon (link no longer active)
• WESTERN SAHARA: Polisario Front destroys second landmine stockpile
• FINNISH military cannot afford cluster weapons ban
• Finally, safe demining in PERU

February '07

• US clearance of unexploded cluster munitions
• Cluster munitions to be banned by 2008
• NEW ZEALAND super fund to terminate investments in landmine manufacturing (link no longer active)
• Governments meet to discuss humanitarian cluster munitions treaty
• State Department co-hosts NATO partnership for Peace Trust Fund workshop
• Pressure builds over AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN border landmines plan
• Cluster bomb conference seeks to address continued problems
• SOUTH AFRICA commended for cluster munitions stance
• UNICEF supports mine-risk education in south LEBANON
• Taliban rebels reinforce captured town with trenches and landmines
• US: Senators Feinstein and Leahy announce plan to continue efforts to restrict federal funds for use, sale or transfer of cluster bombs (link no longer active)
• PUERTO RICO: ridding former US bombing range of cluster bombs is a perilous task (link no longer active)
• The 'toys' that kill in LEBANON
• Peres interview with Al Jazeera: cluster bombs

January '07

• ANGOLA'S landmine legacy
• CAMBODIA plans to clear 28 million square meters of mined areas in 2007
• US assesses ISRAEL'S use of cluster munitions in LEBANON
• Demolition waste, damaged water infrastructure & mined agricultural land are legacies of LEBANON conflict
• UGANDA: landmines and warriors are hindering resettlement
• Ban Ki-moon's system-wide probe of UN field activities to start with NORTH KOREA
• ANGOLA: Over 7000 explosive devices (mostly anti- tank and personnel mines) deactivated near railway (link no longer active)
• BOLIVIA and CHILE build trust in efforts to work together demining heavily mined mutual border (link no longer active)
• SOUTH SUDAN'S demining priorities and other maps as of 1/2007
• LIBYA reactivates demining program
• 11 mine accidents in 2006 in AZERBAIJAN
• NORWAY to help SERBIA remove NATO's cluster bombs
• Landmines causing starvation in BURMA
• US supports Southeast ASIAN and BALKAN landmine removal projects
• More equipment to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance in VIETNAM
• Update from south LEBANON
• Update from AFGHANISTAN
• Unexploded ordnance -- killer of innocents
• UK ground troops to get state-of-the-art new robots