Land Mines Remain a Danger to Ethiopians
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Aberhet Amha was an aspiring runner, winning medals for her school and dreaming of adding her name to the long list of great Ethiopian Olympic athletes. But just before her 12th birthday, Aberhet stepped on a land mine.
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The Mozambican government set itself a new five-year target on Friday to remove all the landmines that still litter the country, 15 years after its long-running civil war.
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Ethiopia remains on the brink of disaster because it is failing to deal with spiraling population growth, slow economic growth and environmental degradation fueling its near perpetual crises, a United Nations report said Monday.
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Ethiopia's prime minister said Thursday he is building up the army's capabilities because he fears an imminent attack by Eritrea, which he also accused of arming rebel groups inside his country.
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NAIROBI, 3 December (IRIN) - Forty people were killed by landmines in Somalia during 2003 out of 75 reported casualties, an international humanitarian organisation, Geneva Call, reported on Thursday.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 13 -- With the Ethiopian government saying it is technically at war with Somalia's Islamic Courts movement, and the movement having declared holy war against Ethiopia, there is fear that an all-out conflict in the Horn of Africa may be unavoidable.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Nicaragua has found  thousands of anti-personnel mines left over from its 1980s-era  civil war, ending hopes of declaring the country safe from the  weapons this year.
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Three children have been killed by a landmine in Pakistan&#39;s tribal region of South Waziristan, officials say. The children, including two brothers and aged between nine and 13, triggered the mine near the main town of Wana, they said.
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DELEGATES from more than 140 countries gathered yesterday seeking to eliminate and ban landmines that kill or maim up to 20,000 people a year worldwide.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- Unexploded ammunition, weapons and other military ordnance cause more injuries and deaths in Afghanistan than land mines, especially among children, says a study in the Jan. 8 issue of the British Medical Journal.
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Ethiopia has held direct talks with Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts, despite appearing on the verge of war.
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Land mines in Afghanistan killed at least six people late this week, the BBC reported Saturday. A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed at least four people, including a policeman, late Friday.
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Colombia destroyed around 7,000 land mines on Sunday, in efforts to implement the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of antipersonnel mines, according to local reports.
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The number of people killed and injured by landmines last year fell, says a report - but there are still thousands of victims.
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Somalia's Islamist movement threatened on Tuesday to wage war on Ethiopian troops unless they leave the Horn of Africa nation within seven days.
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MERERANI, Tanzania  - The orange sun sets over the  Tanzanian mining town of Mererani as pick-up trucks take the  night shift to pits producing blue Tanzanite gemstones, and  tired workers trudge home in the opposite direction.
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Groups campaigning against the eradication of landmines must not rest until all countries ratify the Mine Ban Treaty, President Mwai Kibaki said yesterday.