MAG - Mines Advisory Group (Mali)

Conflict in central and northern Mali – involving armed groups, government forces, and international forces – has left the region highly affected by landmines and unexploded bombs. This contamination threatens everyone’s lives and livelihoods.

The Malian population requires many kinds of humanitarian aid, including food, healthcare, water and sanitation. Humanitarian organisations are struggling to help due to the risks posed by landmines and unexploded bombs in several areas.

Mali’s recent conflict is an example of the devastation that the uncontrolled proliferation of conventional weapons can bring to a country and region. Existing instability and tensions between ethnic populations and political divisions can rapidly escalate into conflict when a large number of weapons are in circulation, as can be seen in central Mali.