Posted on 03 December 2009. Tags: 1990, 1994, Africa Minister, Anti-Personnel Mine Ban convention, BBC World Service, Ben Remfrey, Cartagena Summit, Colombia, Department for International Development, Gareth Thomas, International Mines Action Training Centre, kenya, Kigali, Mine Detection Dogs, Mines Awareness Trust, Nteziyaremya Alphose, Ottawa Landmine Treaty, Rwanda
Rwanda has been declared free of landmines – the first country to achieve this status.
The announcement was made at the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World in Colombia.
Hundreds of people have been killed and horrifically injured by landmines in Rwanda.
Landmines were laid between 1990 and 1994 in Rwanda and over the past three years more than over 9,000 have been destroyed by Rwandan soldiers. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 November 2009. Tags: australia, continental islands, coral cays, coral reefs, Earth, facts, Kuwait, natural wonders of the world, nature, outer space, reef, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovakia, the Dominican Republic, The Great Barrier Reef
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