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17.09.2019 Article

Humanitarian mine action – global engagement against mines and cluster munitions

From Afghanistan to Bosnia and Herzegovina – Germany is working around the world to address the threat posed by mines and IEDs. At a conference at the Federal Foreign Office today, participants will examine mine clearance in complex crisis contexts. 

Mine clearance on grassland in Takhar Province, Afghanistan
12.12.2018 Article

Mines – the insidious legacy of war

Mines, booby-traps and unexploded ordnance stop life from going back to normal after a war and prevent refugees from returning home. Germany supports mine and ordnance clearance around the world. Find out more below about the work of a deminer in Ukraine and why IS leaves mined towns in its wake.

Ukrainian deminer Tetiana Nykyforova in a minefield in Donetsk region
18.09.2018 Article

Conference on Humanitarian Mine and Ordnance Clearance at the Federal Foreign Office 

At the heart of the conference, which is being held in Berlin on 18 September, is the new Federal Foreign Office Humanitarian Mine Action Strategy 2019-2021. 

Two AFRILAM minesweepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
17.11.2017 Article

Raqqa: Germany is helping with mine clearance

The city, devastated by IS, is still riddled with deathly traps. The Federal Foreign Office is making available ten million euros so that reconstruction work can begin.

Fighting in Raqqa
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