After the conflict in the year 2011 Libya was contaminated with large quantities of landmines, unexploded ordnance and abandoned explosive ordnance that made a normal life for the affected population impossible.

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27 years lasted the civil war (1975 – 2002) in Angola, which had at first begun as a battle against the Portuguese colonial rulers and thereafter became more and more of an internationally supported battle for power and mineral resources. The country was isolated from any normal development and hit by destruction, flight and devastation. Several million mines have been laid, scattered over about a third of the land area.

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Decades of civil war, brocken out in 1991, made Somalia to one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. Entire regions were devastated, approximately one million mines were laid „wildly“.

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