{"id":268643,"date":"2025-07-17T06:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268643\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:43:09","slug":"prince-harry-retraces-dianas-footsteps-by-walking-through-a-land-mine-field-in-angola-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268643\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry retraces Diana’s footsteps by walking through a land mine field in Angola for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) \u2014 Prince Harry<\/a> followed in his late mother\u2019s footsteps on Wednesday by wearing a flak jacket and walking down a path in an active land mine field in Angola to raise awareness for a charity\u2019s work clearing explosives from old warzones.<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex<\/a> is in the southern African country with the Halo Trust organization, the same group Princess Diana<\/a> worked with when she went to Angola in January 1997, seven months before she was killed in a car crash in Paris. <\/p>\n

Diana\u2019s advocacy and the images of her walking through a minefield helped mobilize support for a land mine ban treaty that was ratified later that year.<\/p>\n

Harry walked through a land mine field near a village in Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola, according to Halo Trust. It\u2019s not the first time he has retraced his mother\u2019s steps after traveling to Angola for a similar awareness campaign<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n

The land mines across Angola were left behind from its 27-year civil war from 1975 to 2002. The Halo Trust says at least 60,000 people have been killed or injured by land mines since 2008. It says it has located and destroyed over 120,000 land mines and 100,000 other explosive devices in Angola since it started work in the country in 1994, but 1,000 minefields still need to be cleared.<\/p>\n

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More AP news on the British royals: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/royalty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) \u2014 Prince Harry followed in his late mother\u2019s footsteps on Wednesday by wearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[2740,28898,24495,7709,12018,7721,7719,77,4179,7718,102227,388,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7796,7711,7660,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-268643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-angola","10":"tag-automotive-accidents","11":"tag-british-royal-family","12":"tag-cape-town","13":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","14":"tag-duke-of-sussex","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-harry","18":"tag-land-mines","19":"tag-lifestyle","20":"tag-meghan","21":"tag-meghan-markle","22":"tag-prince-harry","23":"tag-royal-families","24":"tag-royal-family","25":"tag-royalty","26":"tag-uk-royal-family","27":"tag-war-and-unrest","28":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114867221913904884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}