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Original Post Date: 2009-05-18 Time: 21:00:02 Posted By: Jan
Maputo – An NGO working on mine clearance in Mozambique, the US and UK registered Halo Trust, says it needs about one million US dollars to demine about 80 kilometres of the high voltage power line between Maputo and Ressano Garcia, on the border with South Africa.
After a visit that the National Demining Institute (IND) paid to the locality of Sao Damaso, in Maputo province, to see in loco the operations of their machinery, the representative of the Halo Trust in Mozambique, Helen Gray, said that the Ressano Garcia-Maputo power line, with a total of 200 pylons, 165 of which are surrounded with land mines, in an area covering 359,620 square meters, poses a high risk to people and animals in the area.
Of the affected pylons, 53 require mechanical demining and the remainder can be done manually, with the use of sappers. The mines were planted during the war of destabilisation in an attempt to prevent the apartheid-backed Renamo rebels from sabotaging the pylons and cutting off the power to Maputo
However, of the necessary money, the Halo Trust has only managed to raise 300,000 dollars from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for the mechanical demining.
“UNDP has granted 300,000 US dollars. But the Halo Trust needs another million US dollars to clear the other pylons of land mines, in order to allow local people to circulate freely and resume their normal activities”, said Gray.
The Halo Trust operations supervisor Tomas Pantaleao did not fix any dates to complete the job, but said that it will directly benefit about 5,000 families and indirectly more than 20,000 people.
The country’s publicly owned electricity company, EDM, will also benefit from the mine clearance, because the explosive devices at the base of the pylons do not allow EDM to carry out maintenance work on the high voltage lines.
Pantaleao said that, once the mines had been cleared, “Local people will be in safer conditions to carry out their agricultural activities and lead their cattle to pasture with no fear of land mines”.
The Halo Trust assessment of the situation of land mines in Mozambique showed that the Maputo-Ressano Garcia line and other districts in Maputo province still represent a true danger.
Besides finding corpses of people and animals, the assessment also found situations where there were about 200 land mines planted around a single pylon.
The mechanical mine clearance, which started on 28 March, has already cleared about 1,549 square metres, with the use of four machines.
The Mozambican government has defined as a priority mine clearance in 148 areas in Manica, Sofala, Tete, Inhambane, Gaza, and Maputo provinces for 2009.
For this period, this programme is to be funded by the Mozambican government, contributing 76 million meticais (about 2.9 million US dollars), and 5.8 million US dollars from international cooperation partners.
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Original date published: 15 May 2009
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200905180774.html?viewall=1