As part of his tour of southern Africa, Prince Harry is visiting Angola, to highlight continuing efforts to remove and destroy landmines.
He follows in the footsteps of his mother, Princess Diana, who in 1997 also walked through a partially-cleared minefield. The images of her trip became world famous.
Landmines continue to take thousands of lives in dozens of countries. So where in the world are they and what progress has been made?
The princess was known for her charity work, championing causes which weren’t always in the public eye. She had previously opened the UK’s first HIV/Aids clinic in 1987, for example. That helped to change attitudes to the virus.
Raising awareness of landmines was the princess’s first major cause after divorcing the Prince of Wales in 1996.
For decades landmines had been widely used in conflict.
Many unexploded devices left over from wars were killing and maiming people who stepped or triggered the bombs unintentionally.
Images of her with amputees in Angola showed the destruction the devices were causing.
During his trip, Prince Harry described landmines as “an unhealed scar of war”.
Landmines are explosives. They have detonating systems that are triggered by contact and are usually buried just under the ground, or above it.
There are two main types: anti-personnel landmines, aimed at killing or injuring a person, and anti-tank mines, designed to destroy or incapacitate vehicles.
Mines were used in World War One, but their deployment proliferated from the 1960s onwards.
The random placement of mines became part of military strategy, creating hazardous environments for many people. About 60 countries and territories are still contaminated with anti-personnel mines.
More than 120,000 people were killed or injured by landmines between 1999-2017, according to research by Landmine Monitor.
Nearly half of the victims are children, with 84% being boys. Civilians make up 87% of casualties.
Around the world, thousands of landmines remain.
Angola is one of the most mined places in the world, because of the civil war there from 1975 to 2002.
