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UNAMA Featured Photos: The Government of Germany today donated a selection of mine detection and clearance equipment and vehicles to an Afghan non-government organization (NGO) active in the field, the Mine Detection Centre (MDC). “I hope the equipment will serve MDC and Afghanistan to further clear the country from mines and to help build a peaceful, free and economically prosperous Afghanistan,” said the German Ambassador to Afghanistan, Martin Jaeger, at the handover ceremony in Kabul. MDC is one of many NGOs working in the United Nations-backed Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan (MAPA), as the country’s demining programme is known. Afghanistan has witnessed widespread and indiscriminate use of mines and munitions over more than 30 years of conflict, making it one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. In a report released last October, MAPA said Afghanistan made significant progress by clearing more than 1,900 hazardous areas, covering 112 square kilometres of land, during the year ending on 20 March 2013. It also registered a “tremendous decrease” in civilian casualties as a result of its mine clearance operations which first started 24 years ago.
Posted on: Wed, 21 May 2014 12:16:35 +0000

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