Big award for mine-warning phone app
Feb 14 Nigel Ash

Big award for mine-warning phone app

By Hadi Fornaji.Tripoli, 14 February 2013:A Libyan concerned at the continuing danger of mines for unwary travellers, has won a LD 50,000 prize to con...

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Mitiga Airport cleared of mines
Dec 20 Michel Cousins

Mitiga Airport cleared of mines

By Rzszard Bouvier.Tripoli, 20 December:After a year’s work, Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport is now free of mines and other remnants of war. Mine experts of...

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Unexploded Scud destroyed near Sirte
Dec 13 tomlittle

Unexploded Scud destroyed near Sirte

Tripoli, 13 December:Ordnance experts destroyed a Scud missile warhead near Sirte today after it had lain inactive for nearly 17 months.The missile, t...

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Sirte Power Plant and local beaches UXO clear-up
Jun 15 Nigel Ash

Sirte Power Plant and local beaches UXO clear-up

Tripoli, 15 June:The Sirte Power Plant and many local beaches have been cleared of mines and ordinance by international teams, but the education progr...

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Apr 3 Michel Cousins

Mine Awareness Day planned on Wednesday

Tripoli, April 3: A week after a 13-year old boy was killed in Zliten by unexploded ordnance, the Ministry of Education has joined the United Nations...

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Mar 15 Michel Cousins

Libyan killed by mine

Tripoli, March 15: A Libyan who worked with the civil defense team in Bani Walid was killed today when an unexploded ordinance blew up, according to m...

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Jan 31 Michel Cousins

French navy arrives to help clear oil ports of mines

Two French minesweepers arrived at Tripoli on Tuesday to help clear mines from the country’s oil ports.Speaking at Tripoli port, Libyan Defence Minist...

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