Malawi

Casualties

Last updated: 05 May 2017

Casualties Overview

All known casualties by end 2016

12 mine/explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties (4 killed; 8 injured)

 

The last recorded casualties in the Republic of Malawi occurred in 2010, when an unidentified explosive device killed two Mozambican boys and injured a man on the Malawi-Mozambique border.[1] Since 1999, the Monitor has identified a total of 12 casualties from mines/ERW in Malawi, resulting in four people killed and eight injured.[2]



[1] “Landmines kill 2 Mozambican boys in Malawi,” The Maravi Post, 23 August 2010.

[2] ICBL, Landmine Monitor Report 2001: Towards a Mine-Free World (New York: Human Rights Watch, August 2001).