Algeria: 8 million landmines destroyed since 2004 ...Kuwait

Algeria has destroyed over eight million landmines since 2004, revealed an Algerian military officer during an international conference on combatting and removing anti-personnel mines across Africa which concluded on Thursday in Algiers. The mines were left by the French colonial forces shortly before they withdrew from Algeria in 1962, especially along the borders with Morocco and Tunisia. Elias Troudi, an army officer in the Combat Engineering Corps, said that between 2004 and 2016, his country had "destroyed over eight million mines and cleared over 62,000 hectares of mine-contaminated land". Algeria managed "after decades of struggle and effort at all levels, to

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