Dispatch from Luanda
WHEN Prince Harry walked through an old minefield in southern Angola last month, he must have hoped to bring some of the same magic his mother once provided our tortured country – or at the very least, distract from the very public travails at Sentebale, his old African charity.
Images of Diana’s 1997 visit to a minefield near Huambo, a then devastated town in the central highlands, brought global attention to our landmine problem and a surge of funding to the landmine removal charity HALO Trust, which has now cleared 125,000 of these deadly devices – leaving just 1,000 or so minefields still to go. President João Lourenço discussed with Harry their shared vision of an Angola free of landmines, but alas, more immediate matters are crowding in. A few days after Harry’s visit, crowds in the capital Luanda cheered as protesters set fire to posters of Lourenço’s beaming face, before white-helmeted police jumped off their motorbikes to run around firing automatic weapons, scattering protesters; well over 200 at the last official undercount were killed or injured, and 1,500 arrested.
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