web Photo: Mike White BAGHDAD, 14 April 2008 (IRIN) - Two thousand jobs are being created to help boost mine-clearing operations, a government statement said on 13 April. Those hired would go on training courses before being deployed throughout the country for mine-clearing work. Half the jobs would go to residents of Basra. The area has an estimated five million landmines, many dating from the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Each contractor would get a monthly wage of 150,000 Iraqi dinars (about US$125) plus 50,000 Iraqi dinars (about $41) in risk allowances, a...
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