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MAG is celebrating five years of making land safe for communities in southern Sudan with a photographic exhibition in the regional capital, Juba.
Taken by Sean Sutton and J.B. Russell, the images [above] celebrate MAG’s significant achievements, through the destruction of hundreds of thousands of remnants of conflict and delivery of Mine Risk Education.
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The largest country in Africa is contaminated with remnants of conflict, as a result of the 21-year civil war between the Government of Sudan and armed groups in the south that ended with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in January 2005.
Landmines, unexploded ordnance, and caches of munitions and weapons continue to kill and maim, deny access to land and basic resources, and restrict relief and peace-monitoring efforts.
Particularly at risk are children, who are drawn to the interesting shapes and shiny exterior of many dangerous items.
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The exhibition is being held in Juba on Saturday 30 January.
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MAG would like to express its thanks to the following donors to its Sudan operations: Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID); UK Department for International Development (DFID); Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); Canada Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT); Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Guernsey Overseas Aid Commission; Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, US Department of State; Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, US Department of State; United Nations.
25 January 2010
