The Duke of Sussex donned a bulletproof vest and walked through a minefield near a village in Cuito Cuanavale, southern Angola, on Wednesday, according to the British non-governmental group.
HALO Trust is the same organization Princess Diana worked with when she walked through a former minefield in Huambo in January 1997, seven months before she died in a car accident in Paris.
Angola also has thousands of minefields, remnants of the long armed conflict that ended in 2002, which continue to pose a direct threat to the lives of its population and an obstacle to development.
The HALO Trust, which has been operating in Angola since 1994, claims that at least 60,000 people have been killed or injured by landmines since 2008.
The organization claims to have located and removed more than 120,000 mines and 100,000 other explosive devices in Angola, a country it considers a strategic partner.
Despite progress, there are still approximately 975 minefields in Angola, 192 of which are located along the strategic Lobito Corridor.
This is not the first time that Prince Harry of the United Kingdom has visited Angola.
In 2019, the Duke of Sussex visited the former landmine field in Huambo, visited 22 years ago by his mother, Diana of Wales.
In 2013, Harry visited the country and expressed anger at some countries' failures in demining operations in Africa.
On Tuesday, the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, received the Duke of Sussex to reinforce the HALO Trust's demining efforts, to whom he expressed his intention to fund operations for another three years.
The announcement was made by the organization's executive director, James Cowan, who communicated Angola's new commitment to fund operations for another three years.
In June, Angola announced that it will request in December, for the third time, for an extension of the deadline for eliminating antipersonnel mines, as required by Article 5 of the Ottawa Convention, for another five years.
The director-general of the National Mine Action Agency, Brigadier Leonardo Sapalo, noted that the provinces of Luanda, Icolo and Bengo, Benguela, Huambo, Zaire, Namibe, Cuanza Norte, Uíge, and Malanje have reduced contamination and are close to being declared mine-free.
João Lourenço wants the country to be mine-free by 2027 and announced in October that 240 million dollars will be invested in the demining program over the next two years.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Parliament approved the country's withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention, following in the footsteps of Poland, Finland, and the Baltic states, in the face of the threat from Russia, which is not a party to the antipersonnel mine treaty.
