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Angola: Halo Trust De-Activates Over 2000 Landmines
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
Menongue
About 2,475 anti-personnel mines were de-activated and destroyed in the first semester of the current year, in the south-eastern Kuando Kubango Province, by the NGO The Halo Trust, informed Thursday to ANGOP the organisation's Operations chief, José António.
In the same period, the NGO removed and destroyed 1,501 anti-tank mines and 976 explosives, a work done on an extension of 27 kilometres of roads.
José António informed also that the organisation has been working in the municipalities of Menongue, Kuito Kuanavale and Mavinga.
The Halo Trust is a British demining NGO which carries out humanitarian work in Angola, mainly in the provinces of Bié, Huambo, Kuando Kubango and Benguela.
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The Halo Trust is financed by the United States of America, United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland and the European Community.
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