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Blog post: These children had never known peace
MAG Pic of the Day, 20 May 2013.
Blog post: Lumege-Canjamba primary school in Moxico
MAG Pic of the Day, 18 April 2013.
A village free of landmines
MAG cleared 137,715m2 of land in Luzi. The impact of this work has been huge. (11 April 2013)
Blog post: Landmine survivors in Angola
MAG Pic of the Day, 8 April 2013.
WATCH ONLINE: Surviving the Peace: Angola
This film follows the interconnected stories of an eight-year-old landmine survivor, Minga, and a former soldier turned MAG deminer, Eron. (3 April 2013)
MAG Pic of the Day, 27 February 2013
This water tower in the Angolan province of Moxico was able to be
reopened after MAG cleared the surrounding area of explosive weapons.
MAG Pic of the Day, 31 January 2013
Children in Moxico province.
MAG Pic of the Day, 22 January 2013
Victor lives in Chafinda village, in Angola's eastern province of Moxico, where MAG is clearing landmines and giving lifesaving 'risk education' to vulnerable communities.
MAG Pic of the Day, 3 January 2013
This 13-year-old boy stood on a landmine buried outside his house. His father had planted it in an attempt to defend his family.
WATCH ONLINE: Moxico – Fighting a deadly legacy
Despite a decade of peace, 200,000 people in Moxico – Angola's most landmine-affected province – live with the deadly legacy of 40 years of conflict. (25 April 2012)
MAG Angola’s positive reputation spreads across Moxico province
One hundred per cent of conflict-affected communities questioned on landmine and unexploded ordnance contamination said that following MAG's work they had not had any further accidents and felt safer. (10 January 2012)
Remember them
More than 70 per cent of Angola's population live on less than US$2 a day. They need safe land to farm on, they need safe access to education and health care, they need increased help. Please don't forget them. (17 November 2011)
Improving access to education in Moxico
Recognising the importance of ensuring safe access to education, MAG is clearing an area for a new school to be built, as part of our clearance of 248,000 square metres of land in Luzi. (10 November 2011)
Stimulating growth in the poorest rural areas
Music and dance filled the Luena air as MAG celebrated the first 12 months of an EC-funded project to provide safe land for reconstruction and agriculture in Moxico. (28 October 2011)
Diary of a MAG HQ Desk Officer
My name’s Clare and I'm the main point of coordination between a portfolio of programmes, our HQ and our donors. This diary tells you about my first visit to Angola see MAG’s work in action. (7 October 2011)
Explorer/anthropologist completes trip in support of MAG
Julian Monroe Fisher has completed his most ambitious expedition to date, to bring global awareness to the efforts of MAG. (4 July 2011)
MAG Angola report - April-June 2010 [PDF]
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the latest report from MAG's operations in the country.
Capacity building with local authorities
In Moxico province in recent months, MAG has delivered safety messages to military and police forces, and conducted mapping training for the country’s National Institute for Demining. (30 June 2010)
Donors visit MAG in Moxico
MAG has received visits from the US Ambassador to Angola and the Dutch Embassy's Policy Officer. (14 June 2010)
PHOTO GALLERY: Football stars
This selection of images taken by MAG photographer Sean Sutton over the past 15 years celebrates the world game and the strength of the human spirit. (8 June 2010)
MAG Angola report, January-March 2010 [PDF]
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the latest report from MAG's operations in the country.
'I never saw the others again'
Safety messages given by MAG’s Community Liaison staff saved young Mussole’s life. (21 April 2010)
Helping conflict-affected communities to escape poverty
Often it is not lack of fertile land, trade opportunities or local authority support that prevents communities in conflict-affected areas from escaping poverty, but landmines or other deadly unexploded ordnance. (1 April 2010)
Road clearance helps post-conflict recovery
Clearing roads of landmines and unexploded ordnance is crucial to helping improve the standard of living in Moxico, the province most heavily contaminated by remnants of conflict. (19 March 2010)
MAG Angola report, July-December 2009 [PDF]
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the latest report from MAG's operations in the country.
"Our choice was to take the risk or to starve," say accident survivors
Like many poor families in Moxico Province, Alfredo Ramos Shimishi, his wife and nine children have two options when attempting to earn a livelihood on land they know is contaminated by landmines. (15 January 2010)
Village chief highlights the continuing need for MAG
"We need more land to be cleared before an accident happens," says Belita Cahilo of Luanga on the outskirts of Luau. (13 October 09)
"Clearing the mines makes our lives better"
Landmine accident survivor Atenção Chihango wants a brighter future for the children of his battle-scarred viillage in Moxico Province, eastern Angola. (21 September 09)
Improving infrastructure in Moxico Province
The removal of landmines and unexploded ordnance in Moxico Province is helping the construction of houses and roads, and giving safe access to water and agricultural land. (21 July 09)
Business community to the fore for MAG
MAG is intending to use the funds raised from this year's golf day for the essential maintenance and repair of machinery used in ground preparation in its work in Moxico, the country's most landmine-affected province. (8 June 09)
Students view a Journey Through Change
'Angola: Journey Through Change', an exhibition by MAG's award-winning photojournalist Sean Sutton, is currently showing in the country's capital at Luanda International School. (26 November 08)
Donation helps keep MAG rolling
Pride International came to the aid of MAG Angola when it was faced with a 'big' transport problem. (11 November 08)
Mapping the hidden enemy
The mapping of dangerous areas is central to MAG's work. Locating priority clearance areas – such as people’s gardens, agricultural land, essential resources, schools, communal areas and access routes – is key to the efficiency and safety of the clearance process. (18 September 08)
MAG's election message: Vote in Safety
MAG has launched a special campaign in Angola to warn voters of the mine risks when the country’s first elections since 1992 take place on 5 September. (18 August 08)
LIS Golf Day raises $30,000 for MAG
The second Luanda International School-MAG Golf Day has raised considerable funds in support of MAG’s activities in Moxico province. (12 June 08)
Staff profile: Marcelo Cambembe, Base Manager, MAG Angola
Thirty-six-year-old Marcelo Cambembe is manager of MAG Angola's base in Moxico – the most heavily contaminated province in the country – and one of the longest-serving members of staff. (11 June 08)
City of Luena benefiting from water plant clearance
Prior to MAG’s clearance of the city’s Bairro Bomba water plant, Luena’s 300,000 population had been forced to use contaminated water direct from the local river, resulting in high rates of diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases. (2 June 08)
Schoolchildren aim to raise Treaty profile
Three students at Luanda International School are contacting schoolchildren around the world in the hope of persuading non-signatory governments to sign the international agreement that bans anti-personnel landmines. (10 March 08)
MAG scores with new publicity campaign
MAG made an appearance at last weekend's Angola Football Cup semi-finals as part of a drive to publicise its work and provide up-to-date information about the significant levels of contamination in eastern Angola. (8 November 07)
MAG’s Angola photo exhibition on display in Lisbon
The photo exhibition ‘Angola: journey through change’ is currently showing at the European Information Centre, ‘Centro de Informação Europeia Jacques Delors’. (2 November 07)
A day in the life at MAG
On 10th October 2007, at approximately 10am, the gate of the MAG compound in Luena, eastern Angola, swung open and two small children entered the base... (23 October 07)
MAG in the media: Jornal de Angola
On Thursday, Angolan newspaper Jornal de Angola featured an article about the considerable increase in MAG's activities in Moxico Province between July and September. (19 October 07)
Impact in Canjamba
Following MAG's work in Canjamba, the village is constructing two new water bore holes, has extensive plans for new houses and is renovating its school. (18 October 07)
250km of Road Opened by MAG
As a direct result of the road clearance and verification undertaken by MAG, it is now possible for the first time in decades to travel safely on primary road in Moxico Province. (28 August 07)
LIS-MAG Golf Day
The inaugural fundraising event run by MAG Angola and the Luanda International School has raised approximately $25,000. (3 July 07)
International Mine Action Day 07
Together with one of its national partners, Kalofulofu, MAG organised an afternoon of song and dance to raise awareness of the impact of landmines. (13 April 07)
Understanding the danger
There are few places in Angola where the sense of deprivation and suffering is more apparent than in the village of Canhengue, located close to one of the largest minefields in the country. (8 March 07)
Integrating Community Liaison
By understanding the needs of communities affected by landmines and other remnants of conflict, MAG is able to identify, prioritise and plan their clearance activities. (6 March 07)
World Cup Fever
The positive uniting force of football demonstrates to the outside world the potential of Angola, both on and off the pitch. (1 June 06)
Community Handover
A handover ceremony has taken place in Bairro Jika, Moxico Province - a sign to the local community that clearance of this former minefield had been completed by MAG. (1 August 05)
Toe Popper Mine
It was thanks to MAG's Mine Risk Education that local man Boas Caiombo knew what to do when he found a potentially deadly landmine connected to more than 7kg of explosives. (1 August 05)
Bridge Rebuilding
When surrounding land is contaminated by landmines and other unexploded ordnance, building the bridge to a better future for the people of Lutembu is not as simple as it first appears. (1 July 05)
Mine Risk Education
MRE recently prevented death and bloodshed in the Angolan township of Bairro Luanga. (1 January 2005)
When Refugees Become Returnees
Cazombo is a rapidly expanding town 200km from the border of Zambia in Moxico Province. (1 December 03)
Kassangili Village
Now the war in Angola is over thousands of people are returning from camps in bordering countries. 1,500 people are returning from Zambia every day. (1 January 02)
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