BONNY HÅKANSSON
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A Journey Through Angola
A series of pictures reveal the damage done by decades of civil war
New feet, Luanda:
One third of Angola is now off limits because of landmines. They were made in China, Belgium, Italy, the U.K. and the U.S. Others date from before the end of the cold war and the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the former Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, and even West Germany. Widow Lusia Duarte, 50, has very personal experience of their deadly effects. She stepped on one in 1984 and lost a leg. Only recently has she been given a prosthesis by the Red Cross. "Now, with a new leg, I can help my eight children with the housework," she says. "Before, I could do nothing."
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