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MAG Iraq report - May 2009
17 Jun 2009 13:47:00 GMT
 Source: MAG (Mines Advisory Group)
Website: Website: http://www.maginternational.org/iraq

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SUMMARY OF MAY'S ACTIVITIES:

The programme continued to reduce risk to vulnerable communities and support conflict recovery and rehabilitation by implementing Humanitarian Mine Action and Conventional Weapons Destruction projects in Dahuk, Diyala, Erbil, Kirkuk, Ninewah, and Sulimaniyah governorates:

- MAG teams searched and cleared 491,694 square metres of land using hand, electronic, and visual techniques safely removing and destroying 530 hazardous items. Additional 359,416 sq/m of suspected hazardous land were made safe through demarcation

- Mine Risk Education (MRE) teams delivered 200 MRE sessions reaching 10,374 individuals in 87 villages in Erbil, Diyala, Dahuk, Kirkuk and Sulimaniyah governorates

- Community Liaison teams identified 277 dangerous areas in 112 different villages. Team visited four villages in Erbil and Diyala governorates visiting 83 households to conduct community assessment survey

- Six Conventional Weapons Response teams deployed 116 times to complete 397 tasks during May, destroying 12,191 conventional weapons

- Mechanical assets were used to clear 3,837 sq/m of land and process 6635 cubic metres of contaminated earth

- Mine Detection Dogs were used to clear 12,878 sq/m of low and medium risk parts of three minefields in Mamsha and Qazan Blakh villages in Kirkuk governorate

DONORS

MAG would like to express gratitude to the following donors to the Iraq programme: Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, US Department of State. Irish Aid. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Netherlands, Belgian Government, Stichting Vluchteling, Marshall Legacy Institute and German Government.

For more information on MAG's Iraq programme and to download the full report in PDF format please go to www.maginternational.org/iraq


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