MOZAMBIQUE’S government announced on Tuesday that it would commission a national survey of landmines to determine exactly how much of a threat they posed. The United Nations estimates that at least two million of the indiscriminate killers were buried in Mozambique during the country’s devastating 16-year civil war. Only a fraction of the mines, along major roads and railway lines, have been lifted since the civil war ended in 1992. The government said in a statement on Tuesday that it would conduct a national survey of all remaining minefields between January and November next year. It is unclear how the project, which will require sophisticated geographic information systems, will be funded. The UN has conducted similar surveys in Yemen and Bosnia-Herzegovina.