{"id":232732,"date":"2019-09-28T03:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T07:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=232732"},"modified":"2025-01-19T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T20:24:40","slug":"prince-harry-walks-through-angola-mine-field-echoing-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/28\/prince-harry-walks-through-angola-mine-field-echoing-diana\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry walks through Angola mine field, echoing Diana"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales visited Huambo, Angola, to bring global attention to the effect of landmines on people\u2019s lives. <\/p>\n<p>22 years on, The Duke walked along the bustling street which was once the minefield where his mother was pictured. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r8jOsCISf1\">pic.twitter.com\/r8jOsCISf1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyalFamily\/status\/1177583042669531136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; A body armour-wearing Prince Harry has followed in the footsteps of his late mother, Princess Diana, whose walk through an active mine field in Angola years ago helped lead the way to a global ban on the deadly weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The prince walked through a dusty mine field marked with skull-and-crossbones warning signs, and was visiting the spot where Diana was famously photographed on a similar walk during her own Africa visit in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>That field in Huambo is now a busy street.<\/p>\n<p>The southern African nation is now years past a grinding civil war and hopes to be land mine-free by 2025, a goal of scores of countries around the world.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lyrica online <a href=\"https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lyrica.html\">https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lyrica.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Harry told reporters that land mines are an unhealed scar of war and that retracing his mother&#8217;s path was \u201cquite emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diana&#8217;s visit is still very much discussed today in Huambo after people were struck by her warmth and willingness to acknowledge their country&#8217;s devastating 27-year conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The international ban on anti-personnel mines was signed that year and entered into force two years later.<\/p>\n<p>So far 164 countries have signed on.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy mebendazole online <a href=\"https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/mebendazole.html\">https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/mebendazole.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>On his visit today Harry also remotely detonated a decades-old mine, met with mine-clearing teams and was visiting the orthopedic hospital his mother visited for her meetings with mine victims.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry says a staggering 60 million people around the world still live in fear and risk of land mines.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy paxil online <a href=\"https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/paxil.html\">https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/paxil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He says \u201cwe cannot turn our backs on them and leave a job half done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His first official family tour with his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and their baby, Archie, will continue with stops in Malawi and further events in South Africa with a focus on issues including mental health and women&#8217;s empowerment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales visited Huambo, Angola, to bring global attention to the effect of landmines on people\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":229353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-cara-anna","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285886,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232732\/revisions\/285886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}