Prince Harry in Diana’s footsteps with landmine walk in Angola

The Duke of Sussex watched the footprints of his mother Princess Diana and visited a charity institution that cleansed lands in Angola.

“Children should never have to live for fear of playing outside or walking to school,” Prince Harry said about the threat of mine on the civilian population. He said.

Prince Harry Angola supported the work of Halo Trust, a charity supported by Princess Diana during his high -profile visit to the Central African country in 1997.

The image of the princess walking in a mine in a viewfinder and a mine armor in a mine was drawn worldwide to the danger caused by the mines left behind after the wars ended.

Prince Harry visited a village close to a mine field and met with children who were given lessons to prevent explosives from explosion.

Halo Trust cleaned 120,000 land mines in Angola, which has been from the Civil War for years.

Since 2008, 60,000 people have been killed or injured by the mines in the country, and about a thousand minefields will still be cleaned.

“War remains still threaten life every day,” Halo Trust’s boss Prince Harry said, ” He said.

He also spent time with the British charity. Visit Angola in 2019 When it walks in a partially cleaned minefield and starts a controlled explosion.

At the beginning of this week, Prince Harry met Joao Lourenco, president of Angola, where the Prince welcomed his renewed support for the government’s aid organization.

Halo Trust’s General Manager James Cowan, “until the last mine is cleaned, we will continue our work in solidarity with the people of Angola.”

In January 1997, Princess Diana, in Angola, made a symbolic view of the efforts of stopping the damage to civilians from land substances.

He walked on a road cleared in a mine field and supported an international ban on the use of land mines.

This led to a row, the princess was criticized by some politicians for their views.

However, in 1997, the minefield, where he walked, was cleaned and the site is now a developing community, local children Princess Diana.