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EU stops financing mine removal project

    JOHANNESBURG

    The European Union says it will stop financing mine removal projects because of the resumption of war, the Angolan news agency reported on Thursday.

    In an interview with Angola radio, Helder Cruz, director of the Institute for the Removal of Explosive and other Devices (Inaroe), said Angola had lost its financing because it was redirected to Mozambique, where the demining process had proved to be more successful.

    “Sadly the resumption of war meant that the project had to be sidelined and rerouted,” he said. According to the news reports the most noteworthy demining project was in Bie Province to clear farm land for displaced people.

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