{"id":268298,"date":"2025-07-17T03:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268298\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T03:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:39:16","slug":"prince-harry-in-dianas-footsteps-with-landmine-walk-in-angola-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268298\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry in Diana’s footsteps with landmine walk in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean Coughlan<\/p>\n

Royal correspondent<\/p>\n

Watch: Prince Harry retraces his mother Diana’s footsteps with landmine walk in Angola<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex has followed in the footsteps of his mother, Princess Diana, as he visited a charity clearing landmines in Angola.<\/p>\n

“Children should never have to live in fear of playing outside or walking to school,” said Prince Harry, about the continuing threat of mines to the civilian population.<\/p>\n

Prince Harry was in Angola supporting the work of the Halo Trust, the charity that had been backed by Princess Diana on her high-profile visit to the Central African country in 1997.<\/p>\n

The image of the princess walking through a minefield, in a visor and body armour, had brought worldwide attention to the danger caused by mines left behind after wars had ended.<\/p>\n

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There are still about a thousand minefields in Angola, left over from civil wars<\/p>\n

Prince Harry visited a village near to a minefield and met children who are given lessons in how to avoid detonating the explosives.<\/p>\n

The Halo Trust has cleared 120,000 landmines in Angola, left over from years of civil war.<\/p>\n

An estimated 60,000 people have been killed or injured by mines in the country since 2008 and about a thousand minefields are still to be cleared.<\/p>\n

“The remnants of war still threaten lives every day,” said Prince Harry, patron of the Halo Trust.<\/p>\n

He also spent time with the British charity during a visit to Angola in 2019<\/a> when he walked through a partially-cleared minefield and set off a controlled explosion. <\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Prince Harry met Angola’s President Joao Lourenco, where the prince welcomed the government’s renewed support for the charity’s work.<\/p>\n

James Cowan, the Halo Trust’s chief executive, said: “We will continue our work in solidarity with the Angolan people until every last mine is cleared.”<\/p>\n

\"PAPA Media<\/p>\n

The pictures of Princess Diana in Angola in 1997 drew worldwide attention<\/p>\n

In January 1997, Princess Diana had been photographed in Angola in what became a symbolic image of the efforts to stop the harm to civilians from landmines.<\/p>\n

She had walked on a path cleared through a minefield and had given her support to calls for an international ban on the use of landmines.<\/p>\n

That had sparked a row, with the princess being criticised by some politicians for her views.<\/p>\n

But the minefield where she had walked in 1997 was cleared and the site is now a thriving community, with local children attending the Princess Diana School.<\/p>\n

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