Landmines Plague Area Equal to 3,00,000 Football Fields in Iraq

Landmines Plague Area Equal to 3,00,000 Football Fields in Iraq

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported that landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) contaminate an estimated 2,100 square kilometres of Iraqi land, a devastating area comparable to nearly 3,00,000 football fields. World News | Landmines Plague Area Equal to 3,00,000 Football Fields in Iraq.

UNAMA, ICRC Highlight Danger of Mines, Unexploded Ordnance - Islamabad Post

KABUL, APR 4: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) have emphasized the urgent need for global support to Afghanistan in combating the threats posed by landmines and explosive remnants of war. UNAMA stated that “more international support for Afghanistan is desperately needed,” and the ICRC warned that the country remains one of the most contaminated places in the wor…

ပဋိပက္ခကာလအတွင်း မိုင်းအသိပညာပေးလှုပ်ရှားမှုများ ပိုမိုလုပ်ဆောင်ရန်လိုအပ်ကြောင်း ဒေသတွင်းအဖွဲ့အစည်းများ ပြော - ကေအိုင်စီ

ဧပြီလ ၄ ရက်၊ ၂၀၂၅ ခုနှစ်။ ကေအိုင်စီ စစ်ရေးပဋိပက္ခဖြစ်ပွားနေသည့် ကာလအတွင်း မြေမြှုပ်မိုင်းနှင့် စစ်ကျန်လက်နက် ပေါက်ကွဲမှုများကြောင့် သေဆုံးမှုများ မြင့်တက်လာနေပြီး မိုင်းအန္တရာယ် အသိပညာပေး လှုပ်ရှာမှုများ ပိုမိုလုပ်ဆောင်ပေးရန် လိုအပ်ကြောင်း ဒေသတွင်းအဖွဲ့အစည်းများက ပြောဆိုလိုက်သည်။ ယနေ့ ဧပြီလ (၄) ရက်နေ့တွင် ဖားအံခရိုင်ရှိ ကရင်အမျိုးသားကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်မတော်- KNDO ဗဟိုဌာနချုပ်တွင် ကျင်းပသည့် ‘အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ မြေမြှုပ်မိုင်း အသိပညာပေးရေးနေ့’ (Internation

From Afghanistan to Myanmar, Sudan to Ukraine, Syria, the Palestinian Territories and other parts of the world, 100 million people live at risk of being injured by exploding anti-personnel mines. This is the warning from UN Secretary-General António Guterres on this International Day for Mine Action Awareness and Assistance. Safe futures and demining […]

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on the occasion of the World Mine Awareness and Assistance Day in Mine Action that 564 people were killed and injured in Afghanistan in 2024 by landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW). The organization released a report today (Friday, 15 April) saying that 434 children were among the victims. The ICRC said that this number of deaths and injuries was recorded in 251 incidents related …

Landmines remain deadly threat in Afghanistan, Red Cross warns

KABUL — On the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned that Afghanistan remains dangerously contaminated by landmines and unexploded ordnance after more than four decades of conflict. In a statement, the organization said explosive remnants of war — scattered across large swaths of the country — continue to pose a lethal, often invisible, risk to civilians…