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German Embassy funds mine clearing in Albania

TIRANA, Albania -- The German Embassy in Tirana will donate 2.8m euros to Albanian authorities for a mine clearing project, the embassy announced on Friday (October 2nd). The project will focus on mines at the border with Kosovo, believed to have been planted during the 1998-1999 conflict in Kosovo. Since then, mines near the border have killed 34 people and injured 238 others.

(Start, Telegrafi - 03/10/09; Alsat - 02/10/09)