Prince Harry on Wednesday walked by means of a minefield in Angola, harkening again to Princess Diana’s historic land mine stroll 28 years in the past.
The Duke of Sussex visited Angola in southern Africa with the HALO Belief group, the identical group his late mom labored with when she went to Angola in January 1997, seven months earlier than she was killed in a automobile crash in Paris.
Britain’s Prince Harry walks by means of a minefield throughout a go to to see the work of land mine clearance charity of the HALO Belief, in Cuito Cuanavale, Cuando province, southern Angola, Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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Diana’s advocacy, together with photographs of her strolling by means of a minefield, helped mobilize help for a land mine ban treaty that was ratified later that yr.
Diana, princess of Wales, walks by means of a minefield being cleared by the charity HALO Belief in Huambo, Angola, on Jan. 15, 1997.
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Harry walked by means of a land mine discipline close to a village in Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola that has been cleared by HALO Belief. He had visited the identical space in 2013 when mines had been nonetheless lively, the charity mentioned.
It wasn’t the primary minefield in Angola Harry has walked by means of. He additionally donned the blue physique armor of the HALO Belief in a discipline of land mines for an consciousness marketing campaign in 2019.
Harry spoke to households on Wednesday who reside close to the minefield.
“Children should never have to live in fear of playing outside or walking to school,” he mentioned. “Here in Angola, over three decades later, the remnants of war still threaten lives every day.”
Britain’s Prince Harry is greeted as he visits the work of land mine clearance charity of the HALO Belief, in Cuito Cuanavale, Cuando province, southern Angola, Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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The land mines throughout Angola had been left behind from its 27-year civil battle from 1975 to 2002. The HALO Belief says a minimum of 60,000 individuals have been killed or injured by land mines since 2008. It says it has positioned and destroyed over 120,000 land mines and 100,000 different explosive units in Angola because it began work within the nation in 1994, however 1,000 minefields nonetheless have to be cleared.
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