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Title: | Mozambique: United Nations Peacekeeping, Landmine Clearance and Post-War Reconstruction, 1992-1994 |
Author: | Rankhumise, Sello Patrick |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Africa Insight |
Volume: | 31 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 26-32 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mozambique |
Subjects: | UN peacekeeping forces landmines Politics and Government Economics and Trade Development and Technology international relations Military, Defense and Arms |
Abstract: | Led by the United Nations, the international community has pledged to establish and participate in peacekeeping missions in Africa. One of the UN's major postconflict operations has been in Mozambique. This paper discusses the threats to socioeconomic reconstruction brought about by landmines in postcivil war Mozambique, by focussing on the activities of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Mozambique, Unomoz. To provide a background, the laying of landmines during the Mozambican civil war (1974-1992) is discussed, and their effects on the socioeconomic landscape in southern Africa are described. Thereafter, the UN-sponsored peacekeeping operation's attempts between 1992 and 1994 to resolve the carnage caused by landmines in Mozambique are discussed. The paper also draws on the Unomoz experience to recommend measures to be considered in resolving the landmine crisis in the future. Notes, ref. |