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.
- When Faiza Annet waves her daughter off to school, it's the seven-year-old who warns her mother to take care.
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Norwegian People's Aid's commitment to gender mainstreaming in mine action is reflected by the organization's present work in Sudan. This article looks at the successes of the country's first all-female demining team, established in 2007, as well as at the larger cultural and practical considerations of women in demining.
In the 1930’s a German forestry team established a Teak plantation in the area of Kagelu in the Yei District. Along with the forest, the German team created a Forestry Institute in the area.
Kajo Keji is a beautiful little market town, tucked away in the hills of Southern Sudan; the town has a small market and a couple of schools and is covered with large mango trees supplying the residents with much needed shade from the hot Sudanese sun.
Southern Sudan is in most respects perfect for mechanical mine clearance. The landscape in general is quite flat and the soil doesn’t contain too much rocks. And while the vegetation on the tropical savannah is curbing manual productivity, it represents no match for the Minewolf Bagger machine.
MILE 38, Sudan, March 23 (Reuters) Mary Opani stands half a metre away from a mine made expressly to blow anything over 3 kg to pieces. For her, it's just part of a day's work. Mary leads an all-female team of deminers working for Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) in one of south Sudan's most dangerous areas: the civil war battlefield Mile 38.
