It has been busy times for the mine action programme in Albania with perfect weather for demining and evacuation exercise. Read more...

By the end of this year, the land mine and cluster munition clearance programme in Albania will be completed with all known contaminated areas cleared of mines and cluster munitions. Read more...

DanChurchAid's HMA staff in Albania have conducted a Post-Clearance Impact Assessment to determine the effect clearance has had on the local population. The Albanian staff returned to a site, where 53 unexploded cluster munitions were removed, to interview beneficiaries and discovered that, one year after the clearance, the community is using the area as a cornfield, pasture, and football pitch, and cross it daily to access nearby water.

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Since January 2006 the Albanian DCA HMA programme has been cooperating with the Danish Demining and EOD Centre (DANDEC), on Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and development of key operational staff in Albania. Read more...

On Saturday the 15th of March 2008, a large explosion happened on the outskirts of the Albanian capital, Tirana.
A civilian company was working with dismantling of several tons of old ammunition – a remnant for the communist era in Albania, and by mistake set of a large explosion.
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During the Kosovo conflict in 1998/1999, landmines were used extensively, and border areas of Albania as a result became heavily contaminated as a “spill over” effect. While Kosovo received vast international assistance, Albania was almost completely ignored. DanChurchAid's (DCA) operations in Albania started in 2002 as a logical continuation of the DCA Kosovo demining operations (1999-2001). Demining in Albania will continue until the beginning of 2010 under supervision of an international DCA Programme Manager. Read more...

Perparim started to work with humanitarian demining in 2001 as Team Leader, and has been working for DanChurchAid since the spring of 2005. At present time Perparim is working as one of the two National Supervisors in charge of the daily demining activities, in addition he is trained as EOD operator with the responsibility of destroying unexploded bombs along the Albanian/Kosovo border. Read more...

With the explosion of the last landmine in the remote mountainous area in north eastern Albania, DanChurchAid marked the exit of Albania with a blast after working with humanitarian mine action in the country since 2002. Read more...