News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

In order to reduce the risks associated with explosive devices, from 2019 to 2020, the Korean Agency for International Cooperation (KOICA) provided a generous support of 2.6 million US dollars to the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) for the implementation of the project "Consolidation of…

United Nations peace operations promote stability and security in some of the world’s most dangerous and fragile places. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, overstretched UN peacekeepers—civilian, military, and police—were a thin blue line helping to protect civilians, support peace agreements and contain…

(Bruno Donat, current Chief of the UNMAS Geneva office, with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Goma during an earlier assignment with MONUSCO. Copyright: UN Photo/Jacques Miroza) A time to remember the importance of eliminating the threat posed to vulnerable populations by mines, explosive…

BAGHDAD — Japan has earned the well-deserved respect of the world, emerging from conflict to become an economic success at home and a strong proponent of socially responsible policies and actions both at home and abroad. I am a beneficiary of both Japan’s economic success and social conscience…

Tripoli, 6 July 2020 - Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General (ASRSG) for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Stephanie Williams expresses her deep sadness and regret over the death of two humanitarian mine clearance workers yesterday in southern…

On 21 November 2020, the Central African Republic inaugurated its first regional ammunition depot in Bouar in the presence of the President of the Republic, Mr. Faustin-Archange Touadera, the Prime Minister, Mr. Firmin Ngrebada and the Ambassador of the European Union (EU) Ms. Samuela Isopi. This…

What influenced you to work in explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) in Abyei? My journey started in 2004 in my country, Uganda. Given the historical background and the various conflicts which affected my country, many people have been injured by explosives. Because of this, I have developed the…

A week after its manual clearance operations began, a certified team from the civil humanitarian demining organization HUMANICEMOS DH found an anti-personnel mine with a pressure activation system in the Unión Cordillera community of La Montañita, Caquetá. This is the first explosive ordnance…

In 2019, UNMAS recruited Asnath Konaté as Weapons and Ammunitions Management (WAM) Assistant in the Central African Republic. Before joining UNMAS, Asnath didn’t have any experience in WAM. However, after completing a series of rigorous training courses, including three levels of explosive ordnance…

Edwin Correa lost both his hands in 2003. Like many combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC-EP) guerrilla, he handled explosive ordnance in the context of the conflict. Due to inexperience and "overconfidence", one of these artifacts exploded in his hands…

The International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action - 4 April - this year fell on Easter Sunday, the most important of Christian festivals and celebrated by more than 1 billion people across the globe. In his “ Urbi et Orbi” Easter Message broadcast worldwide from Saint Peter’s…

Every year on 4th April, the world celebrates the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UNMAS, in collaboration with the Congolese Mine Action Coordination Center (CCLAM), celebrated the event, chaired by the DRC’s Deputy…