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			<title><![CDATA[MAG welcomes Khmer Rouge trial]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[MAG welcomes the decision to bring to justice those accused of murdering MAG employees Christopher Howes and Houn Houth in Cambodia in 1996. Our two colleagues were abducted and brutally murdered whilst working near Siem Reap and until now the perpetrators of these senseless killings have yet to be ...]]></description>
			<author>Geoff Turner &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:35:48 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/mag-welcomes-khmer-rouge-trial/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bomb Harvest festival screenings]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
Bomb Harvest, the critically acclaimed documentary which features the work of MAG Lao and partners UXO Lao, is to be screened at a series of international film festivals during October and November.
The 88-minute film centres around MAG&rsquo;s bomb disposal specialist Laith Stevens, who is in th...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:23:19 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAG in the media: Vientiane Times ]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
Why does MAG work in Lao PDR? 
© Vientiane Times, 29/9/08
MAG's signing of three memorandums of understanding [MOU] with the National Regulatory Authority for UXO/Mine Action Sector in Lao PDR is featured on the front page of the country's Vientiane Times today.
Funding from international donor...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:52:29 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/mag-in-the-media-vientiane-times-290908/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[SUDAN: Responding to an accidental explosion]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
Why does MAG work in Sudan?
Nearly 4,000 different items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) were removed and destroyed by MAG following the accidental explosion of
an SPLA (Sudan People&rsquo;s Liberation Army) store in Kegulu, Yei County.
Terrisa Jabbe, pictured with her children in the family's pot...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:37:09 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/sudan-responding-to-an-accidental-explosion/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[IRAQ: MAG helps 5,500 in Halabja]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
Why does MAG work in Iraq?
The Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, attacks against Kurdish forces in 1991 and heavy fighting in 2003 all left the border village of Byara - a sub-district of Halabja in the southwest of Sulimaniyah governorate - contaminated by landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and smal...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:55:21 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/iraq-mag-helps-5500-in-halabja/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[SOMALIA: Clearance in Puntland - Picture Special]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[MAG was asked by the Puntland authorities to come to Bosasso, a town on the northern coast of Somalia, to clear a pile of mortars, rockets and projectiles, shown in the pictures below.
Some items were unexploded and some had been worked on by &lsquo;explosive harvesters&rsquo;, where locals take a ...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:40:55 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/somalia-clearance-in-puntland--picture-special/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Video: 'Sam', by Pietro Bellorini]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Sam, a documentary by Italian filmmaker Pietro Bellorini, follows the story of a 19-year-old Cambodian student working in a field in order to pay for her studies, who is involved in a landmine accident.
View an eight-minute version of the film online at the website of cable television network Curre...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:26:55 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/video-sam-by-pietro-bellorini/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[ANGOLA: Mapping the hidden enemy]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
Why does MAG work in Angola?
The mapping of dangerous areas is central to MAG&rsquo;s work. Locating priority clearance areas &ndash; such as people&rsquo;s gardens, agricultural land, essential resources, schools, communal areas and access routes &ndash; is key to the efficiency and safety of th...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:43:25 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/angola-mapping-the-hidden-enemy/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[LEBANON: Improving quality of life in Sejoud]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
Why does MAG work in Lebanon?
Afif Nasser Elddine is the head of the municipality of Sejoud, a village 22 km east of the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon. He has been trying to convince people who fled the village due to conflict to return back to Sejoud. Like many towns in the region, Sejoud...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:45:06 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[SUDAN: Land returned to Kapoeta community]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
Audio: History made in Kapoeta
Why does MAG work in Sudan?
MAG has formally handed back the final section of the 283,898 square-metred minefield surrounding the town of Kapoeta &ndash; the first barrier minefield to be fully cleared in southern Sudan since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace ...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:44:31 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/sudan-land-returned-to-kapoeta-community/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Case study: A victim of UXO in Wau]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[In May 2008, a young girl found an unusual object lying in the drainage ditch next to her home in Wau town, West Bahr al Ghazal state, southern Sudan. She noticed the object was shiny and thought it was something she could play with: not realising it was dangerous she picked it up and showed it to h...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:42:39 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/case-study-a-victim-of-uxo-in-wau/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Audio: History made in Kapoeta]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
A market being built on the former minefield cleared by MAG teams in southern Sudan. 
Listen to an interview with MAG's South Sudan Programme Manager on the historic clearance of the Kapoeta barrier minefield and its effects, from multimedia broadcaster Voice of America.
Listen now [external lin...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/audio-history-made-in-kapoeta/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[D.R. CONGO: Supporting Regeza's recovery from war]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Until MAG cleared agricultural land in Regeza, villagers were not able to produce as vigorous crops as they had before the war and, as a result, were permanently short of food.
Regeza is a village of 250 inhabitants located 60 kilometres from Pweto on the main road between Pweto and Moba in Katanga...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:53:57 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/dr-congo-supporting-regezas-recovery-from-war/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[IRAQ: Mine detection dogs arrive in Chamchamal]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
Mine detection dogs will soon be used to assist in MAG&rsquo;s mine clearance activities in Iraq. In partnership with the Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI), the Mine Detection Dog Centre and the Global Training Academy &ndash; and funded jointly by the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, US Dep...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:19:22 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/iraq-mine-detection-dogs-arrive-in-iraq/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAG in the media: Vientiane Times]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[MAG has featured in the Lao daily English language newspaper, the Vientiane Times, in an article on the Australian government's financial support for unexploded ordnance (UXO) projects
in the country, and the continuing effort to bring about rural development and
reduce poverty.
Below is an extra...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:26:02 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/mag-in-the-media-vientiane-times-lao-pdr/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[D.R. CONGO: Sharing safe messages]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[With safe behaviour awareness so low in Moba Port that even police forces were moving items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) and throwing them into rivers, MAG began a strong Mine Risk Education (MRE) programme last year and continues to work regularly in the south-eastern village.Located on the shores ...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:38:48 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/dr-congo-sharing-safe-messages/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[BBC photo gallery: MAG in Iraq]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Visit the BBC website to view the 'Clearing landmines in Iraq' gallery, which features the photos of MAG's Sean Sutton.
© BBC...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:07:48 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/bbc-photo-gallery-mag-in-iraq/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[SUDAN: Responding to the emergency needs of IDPs]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Over the course of a two-week period in July, MAG delivered Mine Risk Education (MRE) to more than 20,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who had fled to Agok to escape the conflict in Abyei Town.Fighting began in May between the armed forces of northern and southern Sudan in Abyei, an area cont...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:34:15 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/sudan-responding-to-the-emergency-needs-of-idps/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[D.R. CONGO: Three days in the "Triangle of Death"]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[ 
MAG&rsquo;s Manual Clearance Teams (MCTs) in Katanga, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, work in the &ldquo;Triangle of Death&rdquo; between Pweto, Moba and Moliro.Heavy fighting took place here in the Second Congo War (1998...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:05:31 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/dr-congo-three-days-with-clearance-teams-in-katanga/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[GEORGIA: Unexploded ordnance poses high risk for civilians]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[MAG is deeply concerned about the security situation in Georgia and South Ossetia and the potential humanitarian threat posed by abandoned and malfunctioning weaponry. 
"In both Iraq and Lebanon, we provided emergency response to deal with the heavy contamination of unexploded ordnance in civilian ...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:14:47 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/conflict-in-georgia--unexploded-ordnance-poses-high-risk-for-civilians-and-displaced-population/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[SUDAN: Maximising impact in Juba]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
UXO collected by MAG from a former conflict area in Liriya Payam.
The collaboration between Community Liaison (CL) and technical teams is integral to MAG&rsquo;s activities in southern Sudan.
CL teams liaise with communities, collecting and sharing information on
remnants of conflict and delive...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:09:55 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/sudan-community-liaison-and-explosive-ordnance-disposal-in-juba/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Social networking websites]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[MAG has pages on a number of social networking websites (find out more about these in this Wikipedia article).All these sites are free to use (though require registration) and enable members to interact with other MAG supporters and people with similar interests.Click on the links below to log on to...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:18:34 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/social-networking-websites/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[ANGOLA: 'Vote in Safety' is MAG's election message]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[MAG has launched a special &lsquo;Vote in Safety&rsquo; campaign in Angola in order to minimise mine accidents when the country&rsquo;s first elections since the civil war ended take place on 5 September.
Filomena, Community Liaison Team Leader, uses a 'Vote in Safety' image during a Mine Risk Educ...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:40:52 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/angola-vote-in-safety/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[VIETNAM: Community Liaison makes a big impact in Quang Binh  ]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Although peace was declared in Vietnam three decades ago, the Vietnamese government estimates that there are still up to 1,200 deaths or injuries each year from accidents related to unexploded ordnance (UXO).The introduction of Community Liaison (CL) teams has made an immediate impact on the efficie...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:27:52 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/vietnam-community-liaison-makes-impact-in-quang-binh--/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[IRAQ: Mortars and ammunition removed from museum]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[MAG has destroyed 16 mortars, two projectiles and three 'VS -50' anti-personnel mines, following an urgent request from a museum director who suspected that a display of military vehicles contained live items.
Amna Sooraka museum was the site of the Sulaimaniyah Security
Department under Saddam&rs...]]></description>
			<author>Michael Fryer &lt;no-reply@www.maginternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:06:22 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.maginternational.org/news/iraq-mortars-and-ammunition-removed-from-museum/</link>
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