Afghanistan: Funding Cuts, Insurgency Hamper Afghan Goal to Clear Mines by 2023

Aug 19, 2016 | Josh Smith and Mirwais Harooni, Reuters
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Afghanistan's campaign to clear millions of landmines left by the Soviet invasion and ensuing civil war is in danger of stalling, as international aid slumps and militant violence makes more of the country inaccessible. The mammoth task, vital to the country's economic recovery, was to have been completed by 2013, and nearly four fifths of the country is now considered mine free.