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Land released after mine clearance

After first declaring land in Sudan safe from explosives, NPA followed up the affected communities with a Rural Development programme, resulting in a farmers group; planting of twenty four hectares of land; and establishment of a tree nursery.

Operations commence in Sekong

Today is another landmark day for the NPA Lao PDR programme: operations have commenced in the province of Sekong.

Diary from the Mine-Free World conference: Friday, December 4

Atle Karlsen, NPA Mine Action advisor, attends the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World, and sends home daily updates.

Mine Action Milestone in Jordan

The NPA Mine Action program in Jordan has set a record in mines recovery and disposal by surpassing 100 000 mines in November 2009. This is the single largest number of mines found and recovered by any NPA MA program worldwide.

NPA Secretary General visits Ethiopia

Mr.Petter Eide, Secretary General of Norwegian People’s Aid, is visiting projects run by the organisation within Mine Action and Development.

NPA congratulates Mohammed Omer with the Ossietzky prize

“The Ossietzky prize is a big recognition of the job Mohammed has done, and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) congratulate him with the prize he receives for his journalistic and photographic work in Gaza”, says Secretary-General in NPA Petter Eide.

NPA supports a third way for Goldstone

“Norwegian People’s Aid’s (NPA) partners in Gaza are now extremely worried that the Goldstone report will be put aside. This would mean violations of their rights committed in the occupied territories yet again are documented, but get no consequences for the perpetrator. Thus make it easier for the occupying powers to commit new war crimes,” says Petter Eide, Secretary-General at NPA.

One year anniversary for NPAs all-female demining team in Jordan!

The 12th of October 2008, a group of women in Jordan began what seemed at the time as an impossible task.

Mine Action Sudan - Third Quarter 2009 Report

The 3rd quarter of 2009 has been a good period for the programme. The late arrival of the rain has kept productivity on a good level, even if our MineWolf had an incident in August while working on high contaminated ground in Lainya Project, and got damaged.