ONE OF THE MOST LANDMINE-AFFECTED AREAS IN THE WORLD A woman stands in the smoke of cooking fires at the end of the day in Luxia village, Moxico province, Angola. Following more than four decades of armed conflict, which ended in 2002, Angola is one of the most landmine-affected countries in the world, with more than 2,200 Suspected Hazardous Areas. Sixty per cent of casualties from accidents involving mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in 2011 were children under the age of 10. These deadly remnants of conflict are not only a danger to people’s lives, they also hinder rehabilitation and recovery. Three-quarters of the population is reliant on agriculture for survival, but more than 60 per cent of the land is inaccessible due to mines and UXO. This is a country where more than 70 per cent of the population lives on less than US$2 a day. Roads were also laid extensively with mines during the civil war and this now restricts safe access to basic services such as education and health care, as well as markets. And previously unknown mined areas are still being discovered. About four million people were uprooted by the fighting, many fleeing to neighbouring Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the population continues to return following a decade of peace, communities are expanding into formerly uninhabited areas where there had been no indication that a threat from mines existed. www.maginternational.org/angola