Angola
A man prepares a plot of land for building a house in an area called 4 de Fevereiro on the outskrits of the Moxico provincial capital. The area was heavily contaminated with landmines during the country's long civil war and is the region's largest minefield. Returning refugees and displaced people as well as the government's "Village Reunification Program," a program that encourages people living in remote hamlets to move into larger villages and towns so that the government can provide basic services such as education, health care, electricity and water to the population, has placed enormous pressure on the town to find safe land for people to live and to begin rebuilding their lives. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is clearing the area of landmines and other remnents of the conflict to allow resettlement, housing and the long-term development of the country..Luena, Angola. 28/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
