2025-01-13
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Hello, I'm Dashiani Navanayagam and welcome to the conversation from the BBC World Service, the show that amplifies women's voices, taking us around the world to hear the extraordinary experiences and personal insights from women doing incredible things.
Today we look at one of the most brutal aspects in war, the presence of landmines.
Their devastating destruction can linger long after a conflict has ended.
In fact, last year the Landmine Monitor report revealed there were over 5,700 casualties from landmines and explosive remnants of war in 2023 alone.
And children are disproportionately affected.
My guests today are two women who are literally working to make the ground safe for their communities to live on.
Angie Chioko is from the Halo Trust, a humanitarian organization which specializes in clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance in countries recovering from conflict.
She works a supervisor at the Mazaue camp in Zimbabwe.
The country is one of the most heavily mined in the world.
Landmines were laid by the country's ruling army in the 1970s during a civil war.
Anika Kokareva works for the Mines Advisory Group in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, which has seen a rise in contamination since Russia's full scale invasion.
The United Nations Development Program has said Ukraine is now the most mined country with with potentially 23% of its land at risk.
Angie and Nneka, a very warm welcome to both of you.
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