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Japan helps Angola get rid of mines with 2 million dollars worth of materials and training

Japan formalized this Thursday the donation to Angola of material and training of technicians to help the African country to get rid of mines, through a program of economic and social development worth about 2.03 million dollars.

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The Donation Agreement for the Economic and Social Development Program in the field of Demining was signed on Thursday in Angola, between the Ambassador of Japan, Maruhashi Jiro, and the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Angolan Communities, Domingos Custódio Vieira Lopes.

The Economic and Social Development Program consists of the donation of accessories for demining machines, mobile workshop, other spare parts and training of technicians to the National Demining Institute (Inad) of the Executive Committee for Demining (CED) and is budgeted at 210 million Japanese yen (about 2.03 million dollars).

This is yet another initiative within the framework of existing cooperation in the demining sector between the Government of Japan and the Government of the Republic of Angola, which "will allow labor-intensive, long-term and dangerous operations to be drastically improved with the use of modernized machinery," according to a note from the Japanese Embassy in Angola.

"Demining is indispensable for agriculture, tourism, development of mineral resources, distribution logistics and in the improvement of the business environment in Angola," continued the same note.

Since the 1990s, Japan has supported the challenge of freeing Angola from mines, through various ways and schemes of financing, equipment, training, technology transfer, among others.

According to the annual report of the International Campaign for the Eradication of Landmines (ICBL), the Landmine Monitor, Angola remains among the countries classified as having massive contamination, that is, with more than 100 square kilometers of areas with landmines and other explosive devices.

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