Prince Harry walks through Angola mine field, echoing Diana

A body armour-wearing Prince Harry on Friday followed in the footsteps of his late mother, Princess Diana, whose walk through an active mine field in Angola years ago helped to lead to a global ban on the deadly weapons.

The prince walked through a dusty mine field marked with skull-and-crossbones warning signs, and was visiting the spot where Diana was famously photographed on a similar walk during her own Africa visit in 1997.

That field in Huambo is now a busy street.

The southern African nation is now years past a grinding civil war and hopes to be land mine-free by 2025, a goal of scores of countries around the world.

"Land mines are an unhealed scar of war," Harry said in the town of Dirico.

"By clearing the land mines we can help this community find peace, and with peace comes opportunity."
She was a great advocate for a land mine ban, and "her willingness to visit an actual mine field, to place herself right in that context, provided great impetus and gave it a great boost."
"Very striking once people compare those images from the two visits to see how far Angola has come."