Support for Mine Action

Algeria has estimated that more than 10 million landmines were laid along Algeria’s eastern border with Tunisia and the western border with Morocco. All demining in Algeria is carried out by the army. As of mid-2011, army deminers were working in eastern communes, 10 in El Tarf, nine in Souk Ahras, three in Guelma, and nine in Tébessa; and in the west, clearance operations were being undertaken in Tlemcen and Nâama.[1]

Algeria does not receive international support for its mine action program and it has never provided details of expenditure or cost estimates from its national or military budget for clearance operations or victim assistance. Its Article 5 deadline extension request in March 2011 omitted any references to cost and funding needs for the next five years, the time it said it needed to clear all remaining known mined areas.[2]