The
Gambia Armed Forces (GAF), in collaboration with the ECOMIG Forces, destroyed
all anti-personnel mines in its inventory, as well as expired munitions on
Friday 24 February 2017, according to the acting PRO of the Gambia Armed
Forces, Lt Kemo Kanouteh.
This
has come as The Gambia is a signatory to the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits
the production, purchase, use, stockpiling and transfer of anti-personnel
mines.
GAF
also destroyed expired munitions, grenades, 60 mortar shells, RPG 7 shells, LPG
14mm shells, and Pallody range in Sabach Sanjai district in the North Bank
Region (NBR).
