CAIRO: The Executive Secretariat for demining of the Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation completed the first phase of “cleansing and demining” the area of El Alamein, on Egypt’s North Coast. The area is estimated at about 33,000 acres and includes 3,500 acres that could be residential areas and was supposed to be received by the [...]

NABATIEH, Lebanon: Ali Murad smiles serenely as he tells of the day he lost his leg. Ali, 25, was working as a mine clearer close to the Blue Line that splits Lebanon and Israel and had not long been in the job. He was part of a 400-strong squad of clearance workers continuing the removal [...]