Maputo — Mozambique was officially declared free of land mines at a ceremony in Maputo on Thursday, addressed by Foreign Minister Oldemiro Baloi, and representatives of the United Nations, of the main humanitarian demining agencies, and of the donors who had funded mine clearance.
Demining began on a small scale immediately after the 1992 peace agreement between the Mozambican government and the apartheid-supported Renamo rebels.
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