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• U.S. tests anti-IED laser (link no longer active)
• 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• LSN co-founder and mine survivor calls for end to 'victim mentality' (link no longer active)
• 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• MOZAMBIQUE sets five-year target to clear landmines (link no longer active)
• 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• SUDAN: Landmine clearing operation complete work over 223 km in eastern region (link no longer active)
• Villagers flee MYANMAR's deadly landmines (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• SOMALIA: Puntland authorities grant unprecedented access to stockpiles (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• Groundbreaking radar-based landmine detection system developed

August '07

• NEPAL: Committee to be formed to aid landmine victims (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• IRAQ: First phase of Landmine Impact Survey (LIS) complete (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• Professor invents device to aid landmine survivors in CAMBODIA (link no longer active)
• European Commission signs contract for demining of CYPRUS buffer zone (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• Landmines in GUINEA BISSAU: The forgotten crisis?
• NORTHERN IRELAND: Student wins grant for inventing limb (link no longer active)
• French deminer with U.N. peacekeepers killed in SOUTH LEBANON explosion

July '07

• Rats and cats team up to sniff out landmines (link no longer active)
• African elephants learn to avoid landmines in war-torn ANGOLA (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)

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 (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• SOUTH AFRICAN "scrap" turns out to be live mortar
• U.S. Department of State Awards $2.2 million to Deal With ERW and Landmines (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• A second provincial governor donates land to injured deminers in AFGHANISTAN (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• FINLAND'S prime minister hopefuls debate postponing signing the Mine Ban Convention in 2016 (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• FINNISH military cannot afford cluster weapons ban (link no longer active)
• Finally, safe demining in PERU

February '07

• US clearance of unexploded cluster munitions (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)

January '07

• ANGOLA'S landmine legacy (link no longer active)
• 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 (link no longer active)
• 11 mine accidents in 2006 in AZERBAIJAN
• NORWAY to help SERBIA remove NATO's cluster bombs
• Landmines causing starvation in BURMA (link no longer active)
• US supports Southeast ASIAN and BALKAN landmine removal projects (link no longer active)
• More equipment to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance in VIETNAM (link no longer active)
• Update from south LEBANON
• Update from AFGHANISTAN
• Unexploded ordnance -- killer of innocents
• UK ground troops to get state-of-the-art new robots