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UN Calls for Action on Landmine Deaths Among Displaced in Sahel, Lake Chad
Regions

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - The U.N. refugee agency is calling for urgent action to stop
   the killing and maiming of refugees and other forcibly displaced people
   from landmines and improvised explosive devices in Africa's Sahel and
   Lake Chad basin regions.

   Deaths and injuries from these indiscriminate killing machines are
   rising at an alarming rate. Security forces reportedly are the intended
   targets of attacks by various armed groups operating in Africa's
   conflict-ridden Sahel and Lake Chad basin. But the U.N. refugee agency
   says civilians are paying the heaviest price.

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