News – November 2023

November 29, 2023

Under the patronage of His Excellency President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi   Cairo, Egypt, November 29, 2023: Under the patronage of His Excellency President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of Egypt’s Arab Republic and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Egypt is set to host the 3rd edition of Egypt Defence Expo (EDEX), taking place from 4 to 7 December 2023, ...

November 29, 2023

The Falkland Islands Government has confirmed that a number of mines have been discovered on Hell’s Kitchen beach on the designated Government Reserve, located on the Murrell Peninsula East Falkland, north of Stanley. The area was a suspect area on minefield maps. During the demining program the location was surveyed and cleared for mines. Thorough work ...

November 23, 2023

Ly Thuch, first vice-president of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), has thanked the government of Japan for their support for mine action in Cambodia. He also sought continued support for ongoing activities, especially in Pursat province. While attending the 21st Meeting of the State Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention – ...

November 22, 2023

As MINUSMA inches closer to its withdrawal from Mali by 31st December 2023 in line with UN Security resolution 2690, it is important to acknowledge the significant contributions of the Nepal Explosive Ordnance Disposal company to the implementation of the MINUSMA’s successive mandates in the past decade. Their core mission was to mitigate the IED threat, ...

November 22, 2023

The Danish Refugee Council recently announced that Afghanistan is recognized as one of the countries in the world with the highest landmine-affected areas. The pervasive presence of landmines in Afghanistan poses a significant humanitarian challenge, affecting the safety and livelihoods of the population. International collaboration and support are crucial in mitigating the impact of landmines and fostering ...

November 21, 2023

Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) officials expect to reach 1.4 million people in their efforts to educate members of the public in high-risk areas about the dangers posed by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO). Ly Thuch, CMAA first vice-president, said on November 19 that there is no upper limit on the number of ...

November 20, 2023

Units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have received mine clearance equipment from Japan, including special vehicles and mine detectors. The aid package includes 40 special vehicles, 50 hand-held mine detectors, as well as containers and fire extinguishing liquid. Klymenko said that this equipment will speed up the humanitarian mine clearance process and make it ...

November 16, 2023

Country: Libya City: Tripoli Source: UNOPS Career category: Program/Project Management Functional Responsibilities: 1. Advice and planning Support the Head of Project Unit (HPU) and Chief of Mine Action Programme (CMAP) in providing advisory support on all Mine Action related matters to execute the mandate, such as: Provide mine action related technical expertise to the UNSMIL ceasefire monitoring component for operational ...

November 15, 2023

Cambodia has taken another step closer to reaching the mine-free goal after the northeastern province of Mondulkiri was declared clear of landmines, becoming the 14th province to have gained that status. Mondulkiri is Cambodia’s largest and also the most sparsely populated province, containing an area of 14,288 square kilometres. During the Vietnam War in the late ...

November 14, 2023

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD – An unlikely fusion of ink, ingenuity, and integrated teamwork is applying an existing technology to the challenge of sampling and detecting explosives. At the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC), a team of engineers have adapted inkjet printing technology to deposit trace amounts of explosive materials ...

November 14, 2023

So far 87 percent of all wartime landmines have been removed and the Government hopes to have the last out by 2025, Minister of Defence Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri told her Ministry’s strategic planning workshop being held in Mutare this week. “We are going ahead with the removal of landmines countrywide and aiming at making Zimbabwe landmine-free by ...

November 14, 2023

Russia, Myanmar, and Ukraine have used antipersonnel landmines in the past year, and armed groups used them in at least five countries, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing Landmine Monitor 2023, the annual report about the international treaty to ban landmines. The 120-page Landmine Monitor 2023 is the product of the International Campaign to Ban ...

November 13, 2023

“During the mine-clearing operations in Tartar, Aghdam, Lachin, Khojavand, Shusha, Fuzuli, Gubadli, Jabrayil and Zangilan districts, 12 anti-personnel, 129 anti- tank mines, as well as 317 unexploded ordnances (UXO) were found and neutralized from November 6 to 12,” Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency said in a statement. Read more… Source: Azertac  

November 11, 2023

Last summer, two male suspects entered a Saanich bank clad in full body armor and armed with semi-automatic SKS rifles. When officers arrived on scene, there was an armed robbery in progress and 22 innocent people were inside the bank. Both gunmen, later identified as twin brothers Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie, were killed by police, while ...

November 9, 2023

When archeologists found a crate of TNT in Eastern Alaska recently, an Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team at Eielson Air Force Base got a chance to practice their skills. And have a blast doing so. The archaeologists discovered the TNT September 28, but its original source remains a mystery. Soon after they called, Airmen ...

November 9, 2023

Members of the US Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Tammy Baldwin of the Democratic Party from Wisconsin state, and Senator Jerry Moran of the Republican Party from Kansas state, have submitted a bipartisan bill that allocates funding for clearing landmines and other unexploded ordnances left over from the war in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In the foreseeable ...

November 9, 2023

The European Union has provided Ukraine with a second group of explosive and mine detection dogs trained in the EU countries, including Finland, Belgium and Luxembourg. The certification of the dogs and their transfer to the handlers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces after a two-week adaptation course took place on Thursday at the Carpathian Border Guard ...

November 9, 2023

The Group of Experts meeting of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Amended Protocol II will take place on 09-10 November 2023 in Room XIX of the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. The Group of Experts will, in accordance with the objectives and purposes of the Convention, continue exchange of information, on a voluntary basis ...

November 9, 2023

France has a number of proposals on humanitarian demining of Ukraine and intends to send an adviser to its embassy in Ukraine who will deal with these issues, the press service of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine reported. According to the Ministry, several French companies from the humanitarian demining industry are already working in Ukraine. ...

November 8, 2023

Last weekend a Twin Falls grocery received a bomb threat. KMVT caught up with the Twin Falls Police Department’s Bomb Squad to follow up on the incident and their standard protocol. According to Sergeant Ryan Howe, the bomb threat at Smith’s Grocery, located on Addison Avenue East, turned out to be nothing of concern to local ...

November 8, 2023

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Mine Action Agency announced in a statement on Wednesday that 202 Valmara-69 landmines were destroyed in the Sherokian village of Mergasor district. The mines were cleared in cooperation with the Slovenia-based Enhancing Human Security (ITF) non-profit organization. Read more… Source: Kurdistan 24 News  

November 8, 2023

In an effort to improve the skills of operators of Explosive Ordnance Devices (EOD) in the North East (NE) theatre of operations, the Theatre Commander Joint Task Force (JTF) NE Operation HADIN KAI Maj Gen Gold Chibuisi on 6 November 2023, inaugurated the maiden Counter – Improvised Explosive Device Basic Field Exploitation Course 1/2023 organized ...

November 6, 2023

Homes were evacuated after two grenades were found at a house following an arson attack. Two men, dressed in black, broke into a house before setting fire to it on Parkview Road, Croxteth, Liverpool at about 22:40 GMT on Sunday, police said. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service put out the fire before they found the grenades, ...

November 6, 2023

The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) has announced that 13 police officers have completed an intensive five-day training program focused on detecting and neutralizing improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The training, facilitated by the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), aimed to enhance the officers’ skills in using modern technology, bolstering intelligence capabilities, fostering efficient ...