United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS)

The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) reduces the threat of explosive hazards and IEDs. Ms. Kazumi Ogawa is the Director of UNMAS.

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

@AlFajr_FPYA Knowledge saves lives. Thank you!

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

Thank you @AlFajr_FPYA for partnering with us! Explosive ordnance risk education helps youth workers recognize the dangers of explosive remnants of war and share safe behaviours with their communities. 🙏

[alfajr youth @AlFajr_FPYA]

(UNMAS) conducted an awareness training session for the staff of AlFajr Palestinian Youth Association to enhance their understanding of the risks posed by explosive remnants of war and explosive devices. @UNMAS

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

À Bangui, l’UNMAS a réhabilité 2 armureries et 3 salles de formation pour les forces de défense et de sécurité 🇨🇫 : stockage plus sûr des armes et munitions, formation renforcée. Avec @UN_CAR @UNPeacekeeping 👇
https://t.co/HhvShQzwuZ
#LutteAntimines #RCA #CasquesBleus

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

In Bangui, UNMAS rehabilitated 2 armouries & 3 training rooms for 🇨🇫 defence and security forces: safer weapons & ammunition storage, stronger training. With @UN_CAR @UNPeacekeeping 👇
https://t.co/HhvShQA4kx
#MineAction #CAR #BlueHelmets

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

💙Partnerships save lives.
At the UN House in Abuja, UNMAS Nigeria joined the EU-UN Partnerships for Nigeria’s Future meeting to discuss security challenges and stronger cooperation.
EU support helps deliver risk education, assist victims and support humanitarian efforts.

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

Safe ground comes first. 🌍
Drones, improvised weapons, protracted conflicts and constrained funding are changing mine action.
Last week UNMAS met Member States to discuss these challenges and share the UNMAS 2026–2030 Strategy.
Thank you to the Member States!
#MineAction #UNMAS

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

ECHO representatives Javier Rio-Navarro & Petros Lambrou joined UNMAS, NMAC, DRC & JASMAR in Khartoum to visit minefield clearance operations.
Cleared land means the community can now safely access their primary water source.
🎥Watch the team in action!
#MineAction #Sudan

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

Building on last month’s WAM level 1 course in #Mogadishu, UNMAS & Somali partners have just completed a 3-week IATG Level 2 Ammunition Accountant Course.
Graduates mastered stock audits, inventory control & safety standards, reducing stockpile risks & building national capacity

[Jean-Pierre Lacroix @Lacroix_UN]

Grateful to #Australia🇦🇺 & #Germany🇩🇪, who provided funding to deploy crisis management & medical experts to @UNDOF to help strengthen safety & security of our peacekeepers, including through real time casualty evacuation tests. #InvestInPeace

[Masam Landmine Clearance Project - Yemen @Masam_ENG]

#MineAction leaves almost no margin for distraction. Fatigue, grief, family pressure, poor sleep or fear about events unfolding only kilometres away can all affect the concentration and judgement a deminer depends on to stay alive.
That is why mental readiness has to be treated as part of operational safety, especially in #Yemen.

https://t.co/AvewdIyJ7E

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

The Wounded Heroes, a group of conflict-injured soldiers in Bilinyang, are using land cleared by #UNMAS #SouthSudan to grow food and support their families.

"We can now farm without fear."  - Mabior Kwai

Read more: https://t.co/FeukchUp7C
#InvestInPeaceInvestInMineAction

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

📍En El Tambo, Nariño, #UNMAS Colombia lideró un taller de #ERAE con @gobnarino y la @ALCALDIAELTAMBO.
👥 65 funcionarios, policías, personal de salud,
docentes y comunidad ya saben cómo actuar frente a artefactos explosivos.
🤝 Con el apoyo de @jica_direct_en.
#AcciónContraMinas

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

📍 In El Tambo, Nariño, #UNMAS Colombia led an #EORE workshop with @gobnarino and @ALCALDIAELTAMBO.
👥65 officials, police, health workers, teachers and residents now know how to respond to explosive risks.
🤝Building local capacity with the support of @jica_direct_en
#MineAction

[Masam Landmine Clearance Project - Yemen @Masam_ENG]

With 184,000+ people now displaced in #Yemen, roughly half from #Taiz, @CrisisGroup warns that many families remain unable to return even after fighting subsides near their homes, adding "newly emplaced landmines are another threat."
Fresh #Houthi mine contamination is therefore extending the #humanitarian consequences of the current fighting well beyond the movement of the frontline.

#MineAction #ProtectCivilians

[Masam Landmine Clearance Project - Yemen @Masam_ENG]

For #MineAction teams, fresh #Houhi mine contamination in #Yemen means new survey, new tasking and new clearance across areas already burdened by years of explosive hazards.
As territory changes hands, both the operational burden and the risk to civilian life increase, with every newly laid #landmine creating another barrier to safe return.

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

Investing in national capacity means investing in lasting peace. In the Central African Republic, UNMAS and @UNOPS_AFRCent are strengthening local expertise and empowering women officers to take on advanced explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) roles—helping build safer communities.

[UNOPS @UNOPS]

"Investing in national capacity is an investment in peace."

In the Central African Republic, @UNOPS_AFRCent and @UNMAS are strengthening local authorities while breaking gender barriers in mine action ‒ training women officers for advanced EOD roles.

https://t.co/nQnh5kUfID

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

These efforts reduce explosive risks, strengthen national capacities, and advance MINUSCA’s transition priorities. #MINUSCA #CentralAfricanRepublic #MineAction #WeaponsAndAmmunitionManagement #ExplosiveOrdnanceDisposal #NationalOwnership #CapacityBuilding #ProtectionOfCivilians

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

At Camp Kassai, in Bangui, MINUSCA’s DSRSG-Protection witnessed UNMAS support to Central African Armed Forces (FACA) through rehabilitated weapons and ammunition armories, training facilities and safe disposal of obsolete ammunition.

[United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) @UNMAS]

At Camp Kassaï in Bangui, UNMAS rehabilitated two armouries and three training rooms to strengthen safe weapons and ammunition management and build national capacity. The destruction of obsolete munitions also helps reduce risks to civilians in the Central African Republic.

[MINUSCA @UN_CAR]

Au camp Kassaï, base des Forces armées centrafricaines à Bangui, @UNMAS a réhabilité deux armureries et trois salles de formation afin de renforcer la gestion sécurisée des armes et munitions et les capacités des Forces de défense et de sécurité centrafricaines. En visite d’évaluation, le Représentant spécial adjoint @Ebrimacees59 a salué les progrès accomplis. La destruction de munitions obsolètes a également permis de réduire les risques pour les populations.

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

"I urge Member States to ratify and fully implement
🇺🇳the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention,
🇺🇳the Convention on Cluster Munitions,
🇺🇳and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons #CCW." -- @antonioguterres

#MineActionCannotWait
#IMAD2023 @UNMAS