MAG welcomes Khmer Rouge trial
Posted: 3rd October 2008
MAG welcomes the trial of five former Khmer Rouge soldiers accused of killing two former MAG employees.
Bomb Harvest festival screenings
Posted: 30th September 2008
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.
MAG in the media: Vientiane Times
Posted: 29th September 2008
MAG is front-page news today in Lao's English language newspaper, the Vientiane Times, following the signing of three memorandums of understanding with the National Regulatory Authority for the UXO/Mine Action Sector.
IRAQ: MAG helps 5,500 in Halabja
Posted: 26th September 2008
MAG has destroyed 58 items - including mortars, shells and hand grenades - in the heavily-contaminated village of Byara.
SOMALIA: Clearance in Puntland - Picture Special
Posted: 25th September 2008
MAG has cleared a pile of mortars, rockets and projectiles in Bosasso, a town on the Northern coast of Somalia.
SUDAN: Responding to an accidental explosion
Posted: 25th September 2008
Nearly 4,000 different items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) were removed and destroyed by MAG following the accidental explosion of an SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army) store in Kegulu, Yei County.
ANGOLA: Mapping the hidden enemy
Posted: 18th September 2008
The mapping of dangerous areas is central to MAG's work. Locating priority clearance areas – such as people’s gardens, agricultural land, essential resources, schools, communal areas and access routes – is key to the efficiency and safety of the clearance process.
Video: 'Sam', by Pietro Bellorini
Posted: 17th September 2008
Featuring the work of MAG in Cambodia, 'Sam' follows the story of a 19-year-old student working in a field in order to pay for her studies who is injured by a mine.
LEBANON: Improving quality of life in Sejoud
Posted: 16th September 2008
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...
SUDAN: Land returned to Kapoeta community
Posted: 16th September 2008
MAG has formally handed back the final section of the 283,898 square-metred minefield surrounding the town of Kapoeta - the first barrier minefield to be fully cleared in southern Sudan since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.