Sub-Saharan African nation, once one of five most heavily mined countries, will soon mark historic milestone, declare itself free of deadly scourge WASHINGTON — In the coming weeks, Mozambique, once one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, will mark a historic milestone and proudly declare itself free of the deadly scourge.Gone will be the deep-seated fear of generations in the sub-Saharan African nation that one wrong step could spell disaster.In 1992 as it emerged from 16 years of civil war, Mozambique had won the dubious distinction of being — along with Angola, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Cambodia — one of the five most heavily mined nations on Earth.Now sometime towards the end of this year or early in 2015, Mozambique would be the first of the five to be declared "impact-free", US officials and observers said.The treacherous minefields were the deadly legacy not just of the internecine bloodshed that killed a million people in fighting between Frelimo libe...
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