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September 28, 2019
Prince Harry has met with the President of Angola as he continues his solo trip across the country which his mother Diana toured during an anti-landmine campaign more than 20 years ago.
The Duke of Sussex had an audience with leader João Lourenço at the presidential palace in Luanda, Angola on sixth day of his royal tour of Africa with wife Meghan and baby Archie.
Harry will later be visiting a hospital to see the work of a project spearheaded by the country’s first lady, Ana Dias Lourenco who he met yesterday.
The project focuses on preventing the transmission of HIV/AIDS from mothers to their babies in a country where high fertility, a young population and lack of awareness are driving infection rates up.
The Prince will move onto Malawi tomorrow, before joining back up with Meghan in South Africa on the tenth day.
Prince Harry has met with the President of Angola as he continues his solo trip across the country which his mother Diana toured by more than 20 years ago.
The Prince will move onto Malawi tomorrow, before joining back up with Meghan in South Africa on the tenth day.
Earlier yesterday the Duke of Sussex walked through a minefield in Dirico, Angola, during a visit to see the work of landmine clearance charity the Halo Trust.
Harry’s mother Diana visited a minefield in Angola in January, 1997. The Princess of Wales visited Huambo to bring global attention to the crisis of landmines and the people whose lives were being destroyed.
Like all those visiting the site, which is being cleared by The Halo Trust, the same landmine clearance charity that worked with Dianna, Harry had been given a safety briefing and told not stray of the cleared lanes, touch anything or run.
Speaking afterwards the prince said: ‘Landmines are an unhealed scar of war. By clearing the landmines we can help this community find peace, and with peace comes opportunity.’
He and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, also posted a message on their official Instagram page in which they honoured his mother’s work which ‘helped change the course of history’.
They added: ‘The Duke is humbled to be visiting a place and a community that was so special to his mother, and to recognise her tireless mission as an advocate for all those she felt needed her voice the most, even if the issue was not universally popular.’
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September 27, 2019
Huambo – Prince Harry acknowledged Friday in Huambo Angolans’ willingness and determination in the demining process, which has enabled national authorities to take safe steps to rebuild the country and improve the quality of life of citizens.
Speaking on the 28 May Avenue, where Princess Diana witnessed the start of the demining process in 1997, the Duke of Sussex considered demining a very difficult and life-threatening task.
“But that has to be done, because more than 60 million people continue to live under threat and risk of landmines … and you cannot turn your back neither give up the work that is being done,” he encouraged.
He presented as an example the fact that 22 years ago, in the same place, there was a minefield, which today is totally transformed, which, in his opinion, gives another impact to the life of the communities.
He also recalled that in January 1997, Princess Diana was in Angola, as a volunteer for the International Red Cross, having driven a push to the demining process, but there are still over a thousand minefields in the country to be clarified.
“I wish my mother was alive, because I am sure she would appreciate the transformation of this place, as well the commitment of the Angolans to have the country free from landmines by 2025, ” he said.
Prince Harry reiterated the British Royal House’s commitment to continue supporting the demining process in the communities, to allow the free movement of people and goods throughout the national territory.
On the occasion, the governor of Huambo province, Joana Lina, recalled that in 1997, as Secretary of State for the Promotion and Women’s Development she had the privilege of receiving Princess Diana.
Within the perimeter of more than 10 square meters visited by Princess Diana, currently the 28 of May Avenue, more than 28 antipersonnel mines and 313 explosive explosives were collected and destroyed, in a demining process carried out by the HALO Trust, which ended in 2005.
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