Landmines

Two nonprofits are training African giant pouched rats to detect smuggled contraband in shipping containers

Despite more than 160 countries having signed it, the US, Russia and China, as well as India and Pakistan, are yet to sign the mine ban treaty.

Mozambique’s effort to become the first of the world’s major mine-contaminated countries to be declared mine-free is faltering on the home straight.

When Faiza Annet waves her daughter off to school, it’s the seven-year-old who warns her mother to take care.

Red flags, sticks and pieces of plastic tape mark the areas along Angola’s roads and rivers where thousands of landmines still litter the country.

Afghanistan will not be able to reach its goal of being free from landmines by March 2013 unless urgent funding is received, the UN said on Monday.

It looks like a contraption out of a science fiction movie, with its heavy-duty hammer and chains, and it is used for destruction — of the best kind.