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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 6, 2013, Mines Advisory Group (MAG) America will launch a documentary focused on its life changing work in Angola. The film, Surviving the Peace: Angola, tells the interconnected stories of two Angolans struggling with the tragedy of landmines: an 8-year-old landmine accident survivor and a former soldier turned MAG deminer, fighting to save his country's future. The film will premiere in Washington, DC tomorrow at an event for...

LONDON, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sir Bobby Charlton, the celebrated Manchester United football legend, announced today the establishment of a registered charity to pursue a cause for which he has served as a vocal spokesman since 2005. Charlton witnessed firsthand the impact of landmines on the lives of children in Bosnia and Cambodia during his travels and vowed to make a difference. "To clear the 110 million active landmines in place using current technologies would cost an estimated...

LONDON, September 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- City IT firm Certeco made a splash in more ways than one at the weekend. Certeco, which offers specialist IT planning and consultancy [http://www.certeco.co.uk ] to financial companies, entered the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 a day after two staff teams competed in London's River Marathon, the Great River Race. Chairman Adam Ripley, who took part in the race, said: 'Amazingly the news on Sunday gave us an even bigger...

MARYVILLE, Tenn., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- RELYANT, LLC, a Maryville-based company providing worldwide strategic support services, has received notification of award for a $49 million contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan Engineering South District. RELYANT will provide unexploded ordnance (UXO) removal and mine clearance in southern and western Afghanistan. The company anticipates adding up to 200 new employees at its facilities in Afghanistan and Maryville. The...

LENOIR CITY, Tenn., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- EOD Technology, Inc. (EODT) will support the U.S. Forces in Afghanistan by providing mine and battle area clearance services by mobile teams under a contract with an estimated ceiling value of $60 million awarded by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (USAESCH). Under this contract, EODT will provide clearance of munitions and explosives of concern (MEC) including landmines, and munitions material potentially presenting an...

Text of report by Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence, Public Security, Law and Order website on 30 August The Japanese government has extended further support for humanitarian de-mining activities in Sri Lanka and has provided a grant assistance of 1.6m dollars (approximately 170m rupees) to FSD (Swiss Foundation for Mine Action) and DDG (Danish De-mining Group) to accelerate de-mining activities in the conflict-affected areas, particularly Jaffna, Batticaloa and Trincomalee, so that the...

Text of report by Muhammad Jamal headlined: "There are more than 2,407 landmine fields in Sulaymaniyah and only 972 of them have been cleared", published by Iraqi Kurdistan Islamic Group weekly newspaper Komal on 5 July; subheadings as published "Landmine Awareness Directorate communication officer" Landmines are the hazard that has claimed the life of many Kurdish citizens and it is a theme that needs to be discussed. Therefore, Komal newspaper has arranged an interview with the landmine...

By Michael Winfrey TEBNIN, Lebanon (Reuters) - More than 100 deadly black cylinders, not much bigger than large household batteries, litter the main road of this shattered village. They are unexploded cluster bombs fired by Israel in the last days of its war with Hizbollah guerrillas. At least a dozen of them lie near the entrance of Tebnin's only hospital, a shrapnel-sprayed building hit during an Israeli bombardment that wounded 15 people, according to its administrator. "Dangerous?...

By Ed Cropley VIENTIANE (Reuters) - Three decades after the final act of the Vietnam War, Laos, the conflict's secret and illegal theater, remains littered with millions of unexploded U.S. bombs, which kill or maim at least 200 people a year. In all, an estimated 2 million tonnes of munitions were dropped on Laos, a landlocked jungle-clad country of 5 million people which still has the dubious honor of being the most bombed country per capita in the world. Of that 2 million tonnes,...

By Ed Cropley VIENTIANE (Reuters) - Three decades after the final act of the Vietnam War, Laos, the conflict's secret and illegal theater, remains littered with millions of unexploded U.S. bombs, which kill or maim at least 200 people a year. In all, an estimated 2 million tonnes of munitions were dropped on Laos, a landlocked jungle-clad country of 5 million people which still has the dubious honor of being the most bombed country per capita in the world. Of that 2 million tonnes,...