An ex-combatant holds up munitions in Attécoubé, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. © UN Photo/Patricia Esteve
Before the destruction or stockpiling of arms UNMAS ensures that weapons are full discharged. © UNMAS/Marc Vaillant
UNMAS gathered ammunition from the residence of the former President of Côte d'Ivoire and moved it to a UN camp where it could be sorted and safely stored or taken for destruction. © UNMAS /Marc Vaillant
Deminers in action at Bangboka airport. Bangboka serves the eastern DRC city of Kisangani. © Gwenn Dubourthoumieu
A DanChurchAid female deminer at work in the Kabalo area in Northern Katanga province in Eastern DRC. UNMAS supports this programme. © UNMAS/Marc Vaillant
Weapons retrieved from rebels by the UN peacekeeping operation (MONUSCO) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) are destroyed by UNMAS in eastern city of Goma. © UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti
Guns slated for destruction by UNMASin the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti
An UNMAS staff member meets with Libyan boy scouts during a mine risk education session in Tripoli. © UNMAS/S.Carmichael
Explosive Remnants of War displayed in a make-shift street museum in Misrata. © UNMAS/Giovanni Diffidenti
UNMAS partner Swiss Foundation for Mine Action marks an item of UXO prior to its removal and destruction. © UNMAS/Giovanni Diffidenti
Mine action staff inspect explosive remnants of war displayed in a make-shift street museum in Misrata, Libya. © UNMAS/Giovanni Diffidenti
Personnel from UNMAS partner Handicap International gives mine risk education to a group of internally displaced children in a youth hostel association in Benghazi. © UNMAS/Giovanni Diffidenti
Mine risk education Benghazi, Libya. © UNMAS/Giovanni Diffidenti
Ammunition damaged in a fire, stockpiled for destruction. © UNMAS/Giovanni Diffidenti
A Danish Church Aid medic teaches a classroom of students on first aid that can be administered on the spot in the case of a mine incident. © UNMAS/Giovanni Diffidenti
Military and police at a graduation ceremony for a five-week Explosive Ordnance Disposal course organized by UNMAS in Bamako, Mali. © UNMAS
UNMAS trains local Malian military and police to clear landmines and unexploded ordinance in northern part of the country. © UNMAS
In Belet Weyne, Somalia a soldier prepares to conduct a mock mine sweep, as part of a technical and tactical training course organized by the Djiboutian contingent. © UN Photo/Stuart Price
A soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) identifies a UXO during a training exercise in Mogadishu. © UNMAS
A combat engineer serving with the Kenyan contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) inspects a hole in the ground where a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) was planted by Al Shabaab in Kismayo, southern Somalia. © UN Photo/Stuart Price
Unexploded ordinance, including rocket-propelled grenades and mortar shells, left behind by Al Shabaab and uncovered by combat engineers of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), are destroyed in a controlled detonation in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. © UN Photo/Stuart Price
Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) sort through a haul of munitions that were used by Al-Shabaab to make improvised explosive devices (IEDs), at a former steel factory in Mogadishu. © UN Photo/Stuart Price
The remains of a rocket-propelled grenade lies in a civilian area of Malakal following deadly clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the SPLA, in Upper Nile State. © Tim McKulka
Twelve-year-old, Abdurrahim Ahmed Mohamed poses with his friends in front of his house in Al Salam camp for displaced persons. In 2008, Abdurrahim lost his right hand and the sight in his left eye when he and his friends played with unexploded ordnance (UXO) found near his house in the village. © UN Photo/Albert González Farran
Personnel from the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) mark the location of an unexploded shell, near Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur, so as to warn local villagers while they work to safely destroy it. © UN Photo/Albert González Farran
Rambo Isaac, Operations Associate at UNMAS South Sudan, is preparing for Quality Assurance tests of Mine Detection Dogs capable of sniffing out minute traces of explosives. © UN Photo/Staton Winter
Mine risk education for Mundari nomadic cattle tribe in Gomoro, South Sudan. © UNMAS/Elena Rice
At the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)'s Mijek team site, Military Liaison Officers mark stones as part of practical training. © UN Photo/Martine Perret
Taufa Ibrahim and Mariam Zaid, two battle area clearance operators at work in Mehaires, Western Sahara. The mine action programme in Western Sahara has two target groups: UN observers who must navigate desert tracks often in dangerous areas, and the local population that are primarily nomadic, who pass through this region. © UN Photo/Martine Perret
Zakarias Jamil Gaiga, a Nigerian officer with the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), is pictured during a training exercise in Smara. © UN Photo/Martine Perret
Local Western Saharans are pictured during a routine patrol by the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). © UN Photo/Martine Perret
