Prince Harry on Wednesday walked through a cleared lane in an active land-mine field near Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, echoing the 1997 visit by his mother, Princess Diana. Wearing a flak jacket supplied by the HALO Trust, the Duke of Sussex sought to draw renewed attention to the charity’s efforts to remove explosive remnants of Angola’s 27-year civil war. During the trip Harry met President João Lourenço in Luanda, where the two discussed a new three-year partnership aimed at accelerating de-mining operations. “Children should never have to live in fear of playing outside or walking to school,” the prince said after speaking with families who live on the edge of the country’s largest minefield. Although the HALO Trust has destroyed more than 120,000 landmines and 100,000 other munitions since 1994, the organisation estimates about 1,000 minefields remain. The charity says at least 60,000 people have been killed or injured by landmines in Angola since 2008, underscoring the scale of the work still required to make the country mine-free.