After many years of cleaning up rubble, and debris left from years of warfare in South Sudan, Africa, there are still a large amount of injuries and deaths that are being blamed on landmines left in the dirt. The war zone makes traveling from Juba to the border towns of Nimule a three to four day task, and a deadly one at that. Landmines are scattered all over the war torn towns accumulating 3,158 deaths from landmines alone as of mid-2011.
Agencies began demining the area in 2005, and have released 1,067 square kilometers of land back to natives, mine free. The agencies were hired by Africa to sweep the area with metal detectors, bomb dogs, and many other means of debombing. The aid, and relief help that is needed in the townships to those injured day in and day out by landmines, and other weapons of war before the detection of landmines was a very difficult task. It often took days to reach these injured people, which now only may take hours to reach them, saving more lives. Ultimately these townships can now walk safely, and use the land again to farm and attempt to rebuild.
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