{"id":3226,"date":"2025-08-19T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawai.li\/fsd\/?post_type=country&p=3226"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:28:15","slug":"rdc","status":"publish","type":"country","link":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/countries\/rdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Republic of the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former battlefields littered with explosive remnants of war<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since 1996, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has experienced successive conflicts of varying intensity, resulting in numerous civilian casualties and significant contamination by explosive remnants of war. Unexploded munitions left behind on former battlefields posed a major threat to local communities and hindered the delivery of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emergency teams deployed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

FSD\u2019s involvement in the DRC began in November 2003 at the request of UNMAS, with the objective of establishing two emergency demining teams to assist local populations and humanitarian organisations in Bunia. These teams operated under the responsibility of the Mine Action Coordination Centre created by the United Nations in Kinshasa as part of its peacekeeping mission. Around twenty local staff members were recruited and trained by FSD. In 2007, FSD was also mandated to conduct an underwater assessment mission following the suspension of rehabilitation works at the Port of Mbandaka, after explosive ordnance had been discovered along the quay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For nearly 30 years, FSD has been working to make land safer. Explore the key milestones of our humanitarian work since our first demining operation in 1998.<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n Discover our story \n \n \n<\/svg>\n <\/a>\n \n \n<\/svg>\n \n \n<\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Our Deminers in Iraq Pave the way for Return<\/h3>\n

In the Dibis area, FSD\u2019s all-female\u00a0demining team works every day to clear these contaminated areas.\u00a0The women themselves have been affected…<\/p>\n

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Improvised\u00a0Explosive Devices\u00a0(IEDs): the hidden threat that continues to kill after conflicts end<\/h3>\n

What are we talking about, exactly? An IED is a device made in an artisanal or improvised way, rather than…<\/p>\n

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A Second Demining Team Takes\u00a0Over Operations in Ukraine<\/h3>\n

These deminers have been trained and formed by FSD and are now part of the Ukrainian Center for Humanitarian Protection…<\/p>\n

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Former battlefields littered with explosive remnants of war Since 1996, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has experienced successive conflicts of varying intensity, resulting in numerous civilian casualties and significant contamination by explosive remnants of war. Unexploded munitions left behind on former battlefields posed a major threat to local communities and hindered the delivery of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8689,"template":"","country_category":[99],"class_list":["post-3226","country","type-country","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country_category-past-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/country"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country_category?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}