In a first for MAG, a team in DR Congo has just completed the clearance of the harbour in Mbandaka, Equateur Province. Marc Renquet, Dive Team Leader said: "This is magnificent work that will greatly assist in opening up the town of Mbandaka." Daniel Sissling, MAG's Country Programme Manager, ...

MAG is delighted to announce that its executive director Lou McGrath has received the  award of Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Lou McGrath was presented with his award at Buckingham Palace for his services to international mine clearance. Lou has been ...

Dave Leaning, a former Royal Marines Commando who saw service in Afghanistan, has completed his epic 2,500km solo fundraising ski trek across the length of Norway. The 28-year-old adventurer crossed the finish line at Nordkapp, the northernmost point of Europe, becoming the first Englishman to complete ...

A delegation of international journalists visited MAG operations in Xieng Khouang province, northern Laos on April 22nd. As part of a visit organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), journalists representing amongst others The Times, Kyodo News, and Associated Press visited the ...

A child walks past a minefield in Cambodia Lebanese children listen to a MAG Community Liaison Officer explaining the risk posed by mines and unexploded ordnance in their village MAG trains and employs staff from the local population, such as this deminer in Angola » MAG photo ...

MAG Lao is clearing school grounds for the ‘Partnership for safe educational opportunities’ project, implemented in conjunction with The Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) and International Relief & Development (IRD). Ban Khagnou school in Boualapha district, Khammouane province, lies in ...

MAG has assisted the Burundian Army in demolishing 664 anti-personnel mines.MAG was requested by the MACC (Mine Action and Coordination Centre)-Burundi UN Chief Technical Advisor to support the demolition of 591 POMZ-2M and 73 TS-50 mines, as planned by Article 4 of the Ottawa Convention (The 1997 Convention ...

An SALW team working with the FARDC (Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo) to prepare the transport of ammunition in Gemena Preparing a destruction pit for a bulk demolition in Dongo, Equateur Province A total of 3,400 weapons were destroyed by small arms and light ...

Three students at Luanda International School are contacting other schoolchildren around the world in the hope of persuading non-signatory governments to sign the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty – the international agreement that bans anti-personnel landmines. “We did not know that there were ...

A MAG team carrying out a visual search for cluster munitions in Yohmor"The area we are clearing is close to houses and children playing. Every time we find a cluster muniton and the Technical Field Manager removes it I feel we saved a life." - Rabeeih Faraj, MAG Lebanon deminer  ...

Woken by the loud sounds and shocks of bombing one night in July 2006, Rami Ossayran and his mother, Ilham, were forced to flee their hometown of Qoseybeh. When the 34-day war ended, they returned to find that their house and their livelihood had been destroyed.MAG’s Battle Area Clearance teams ...

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between MAG and the National Regulatory Authority for the unexploded ordnance (UXO)/mine action sector in Lao PDR for continued clearance in the country was covered in the Vientiane Times.The three projects are:• The UXO Action for Sustainable Community ...

Three MAG employees have become the first South Sudanese to attain IMAS (International Mine Action Standards) level three EOD (emergency ordnance disposal) certification. Below, one of them – Matur Apach Mangwak – reflects on the experience. My name is Matur Apach Mangwak and I am Sudanese ...

Listen to experts from the Mines Advisory Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the George House Trust and VSO, as they talk about their experiences of healthcare in the world's poorest countries. ...

Without CL there'd be no information for MAG to base its clearance work on- TouiPicsouban Mankhounkham (Toui), a 26-year-old member of MAG Lao's Community Liaison (CL) team explains the crucial role of CL."Without Community Liaison there would be no information for MAG to base its work on. It ...

The final demolition of hazardous items from Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) storage facility Camp Ngashi, following the explosion there in June 2007, took place on 29 January.In addition to killing three people, injuring 94 and displacing over 200 families, ...

MAG's Lebanon programme is the subject of a four-page article in this week's Big Issue in the North (4-10 February). The UN estimates that Israel dropped four million cluster bomblets in the last 72 hours of the 2006 Lebanon war, with an estimated one million failing to explode on impact. © The ...

MAG destroyed a cache of more than 200 small arms and light weapons (SALW) weighing around 1.7 tons (1,542kg) near Sulaimaniyah on Saturday. The weapons were found about five kilometres away in Tangero, at a scrapyard through which children have to walk on their way to a school situated less than 100 ...

    MAG’s front end loader (left) and sifter (right)   The difference in height between the bank on the left of the picture and the ground the MAG staff member is standing on, shows the quantity of earth MAG removed for siftingOn the formal request of the Kurdish Regional Government ...

Forty years on, the long-term effect of the Tet Offensive – which began in late January 1968 and was a key phase of the Vietnam war – still reverberates throughout Quang Binh and Quang Tri Provinces. Read our special report on the dangers faced by the population and how MAG is combatting ...