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Tag UXO

29 Jan

How Long Will This Bomb Stay?

In April 2015 SafeGround sent experienced researchers to the island nation to document the impact unexploded WWII ordnance have on people’s every day lives and livelihoods.

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29 Jan

Stop Dynamite Fishing

Dynamite fishing is the harmful practice of using unexploded ordinance to create explosions at sea for fishing purposes. The destructive impacts to the environment are threatening communities in islands in […]

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13 Nov

Minelab and SafeGround – Intersecting Work to Reduce Legacy Weapons

Minelab is an Adelaide based company that excels in metal detection technology.  The name Minelab does not refer to landmine but rather to gold mine, which was the focus of […]

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13 Nov

Launch of children’s book: One Step at a Time

This first Launch of ‘One Step at a Time’ was by award-winning children’s author Phil Cummings as an Adelaide Fringe Festival free event on 21st February. On a 40° day […]

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13 Nov

Landmine accident in Mozambique

We have heard via the International Campaign to Ban Landmines of a landmine “accident”. On September 26th 2017, four members of the same family died from the explosion of an […]

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13 Nov

Eight humanitarian deminers killed in Afghanistan

SafeGround strongly condemns the attack this week on the Mine Detection Centre, a non-government de-mining organisation working in Afghanistan, which has left eight de-miners dead and another three injured.  The […]

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