Tag: land mines

• Thursday, July 22nd 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  As in the Falklands, Colombian children in rural areas taught to identify mines and unexploded ordnance

  

  As happened during decades in the Falkland Islands, children in rural Colombia are being taught how to identify landmines and ordnance planted near their villages by the several guerrilla groups that ravaged the country during the half-century-long insurrection.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2020 - 09:42 UTC

  Colombia requests more time to complete removal of landmines in accordance with the Ottawa Treaty

  

  Colombia has requested a more than four-year extension under the Ottawa Treaty for removing landmines from across the country, the High Peace Commissioner's office said on Monday.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 08:37 UTC

  Land mines and other explosives caused 5,554 victims in 2019

  

  Land mines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) killed or injured at least 5,554 people around the world last year, according to the Landmine Monitor 2020, published in Geneva on Thursday.

• Thursday, November 12th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentina criticizes Falklands' mines-free achievement, but is willing to share the humanitarian success

  

  The Argentine government has criticized the successful eleven-year demining process in the Falkland Islands arguing it is a new “violation” of a UN resolution calling on both sides, UK and Argentina, to abstain from any unilateral action in the disputed territories.

• Wednesday, November 11th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Falklands on Saturday will celebrate the complete clearance of landmines planted by Argentine force in the 1982 conflict

  

  The Falkland Islands have been cleared of deadly landmines laid during the 1982 conflict and will be celebrating the occasion with two major events on Saturday, November 14. The legacy of the war with the occupying Argentine forces had meant that large areas of the Islands, for 38 years, were previously off-limits.

• Wednesday, November 11th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  After 11 years and elimination of 20,000 explosives, SafeLane Global has made the Falklands landmine-free

  

  Explosive threat mitigation service-provider SafeLane Global has spent 11 years demining the Falkland Islands and can now proudly announces the successful completion of its mission.

• Saturday, October 24th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands celebrates completion of demining with a symbolic “Reclaim the Beach”

  

  On Saturday 14 November 2020, the Falkland Islands community will be taking part in celebrations to mark the completion of the Islands-wide demining program after 38 years since the end of the 1982 conflict. The Falklands' Government has announced that activities will begin with an event to officially reopen Gypsy Cove/Yorke Bay, the final area of the Falklands to officially be declared mine-free.

• Friday, September 25th 2020 - 07:02 UTC

  Gold medal for HeroRAT Magawa's life saving work in detecting mines in Cambodia

  

  An African giant pouched rat named Magawa has been awarded a gold medal by a UK veterinary charity for his “life-saving” work in Cambodia where he detects landmines. Manawa has so far discovered 39 landmines and 28 items of unexploded ordnance in his seven-year career.

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Falkland Islands Land Mines, how they are cleared and blown up

  

  British Forces Network reports how a specialist de-mining team is clearing and exploding a hoard of land mines from the Falkland Islands landscape – out of more than 30,000 laid the Argentine forces during the 1982 conflict.

• Saturday, April 18th 2015 - 10:32 UTC

  Making the Falklands safe: clearing mines from the 1982 conflict

  

  Falkland Islands former minefields that have been cleared by BACTEC International’s (*) deminers are, “cleared to a higher quality than the areas that are outside the fences,” assured Project Manager Julius Unsing, speaking to Penguin News this week.