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Current Feed ContentDRC: Hidden killers on the looseThe full extent of the threat posed by landmines and other unexplodedordnance in the Democratic Republic of Congo is unknown but the deadly weaponsare a daily concern for tens of thousands of displaced people in the east. "Mines and UXOs [unexploded ordnance] are strewnall over the countryside," Francesca Fontanini, external relations officerfor the UN Refugee Agency(UNHCR) in DRC, said. "They are among the most pernicious consequencesof the armed conflict." The mines and UXOs, according to... |
