Instant death after treading on land mines; Number of elephants killed by mines every year; Difficulty of coaxing elephants away from the danger zone; Shrinkage of elephants' preferred habitat....
As both Beaver and Mitchell noted, there are areas of the Solomon Islands, a World War II battle site in the South Pacific, where there are still thousands of undiscovered--and unexploded--land mines. Mitchell, whose Halo Trust has trained Afghans to remove land mines, has appealed for $1...
AngolaDemocracyCorruptionSub-Saharan AfricaCivil WarLand MinesInternational Development Sudan 2010, Vol. 2 No. 01 The Positive Impact of African Union Forces in Darfur ByBoris S. Nikitin After the wave of liberalization of many African states in the late twentieth-century, the world has seen a ri...
The mines are a deadly and longlasting reminder of the bloody civil war which ended last year. Relief agencies in the area, including the UK's Halo Trust, which was brought to the world's attention when the late Princess Diana visited one of its projects in Angola shortly before her ...
Confederate rebellion—his attack was poorly coordinated and met with unfavorable weather conditions. In collaboration with Fort Sumter, Confederate batteries commanded by P.G.T. Beauregard hammered the ironclad fleet with artillery fire, and underwater mines posed a constant threat to the ships’ ...
Not one government declared war on Soviet Russia, but 14 governments sent armies to make war or on her, to destroy her administration, to re-establish the landlords in possession of the land and the capitalists in possession of the factories, the mills, the mines, and the State. Murphy, ...
In 1898, the town of Virden, Illinois advertised for 175 black coal miners to leave Birmingham on September 22nd, in order to work the mines in Illinois. However, the intent was that they be involved in the labor union strike which became a deadly battle known as the Massacre of Virden ...
against mines[91]or Sami hunger strikes against dams[92]in Norway. Hunger strikes can also extend to “dirty protests,” exemplified by IRA prisoners who protested poor treatment, refusing to take showers, wash their hands and eventually would defecate by their doors and poor urine into the pri...
land mines, mortar fire. The head of the DWB mission here, who for political reasons asks that his name not be used, tells me that a handful of doctors are doing 120 to 150 new consultations a day, a staggering 3,000 a month. The Doctors without Borders physicians and staff look hagga...
Tubman’s work didn’t end with the Underground Railroad. As a nurse in the Union Army and a spy against the Confederacy, she continued to fight for freedom.