Mozambique: Mozambique Destroyed Its Last Landmine. That’s a Victory for Food Security

Oct 7, 2015 | Karen Coates, UN Dispatch
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Last week, deminers in Mozambique detonated the country’s last-known landmine. It took 22 years to rid them all, more than 200,000 total. Decades of conflict had ruptured the country, with a 10-year fight for independence from Portugal, followed by 15 years of civil war. By the end, in 1992, more than a million people had been killed, 5 million displaced, and half the country contaminated with mines. That final blast last week marked a victory for 27 million Mozambicans—and a hope for hundreds of millions more worldwide who live in the lingering shadow of war.