Twenty years of civil war in Sudan, ending in 2005, left the breakaway southern region littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance. Since 2002, aid groups have removed more than 16,000 mines from the region, but thousands more remain. “Many people are not aware that they have a mine on their doorstep,” said U.N. mine official Doep du Plessis. Armor-wearing de-mining teams employed by humanitarian group Norwegian People’s Aid are on the front lines of an intensive clearing effort. The teams sweep with metal detectors to locate mines, then trim back any grass and soften the hard-baked earth with water before carefully digging up
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