CMAC Shares EOD Expertise With US and Cabo Verde Personnel
CMAC Shares EOD Expertise With US and Cabo Verde Personnel
PHNOM PENH, Sept. 8, 2026 — The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), in cooperation with the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation, provided specialised Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) training to United States military personnel and ammunition technicians from Cabo Verde at the end of August and beginning of September 2026.
The training focused on techniques for handling explosive remnants of war (ERW), including search technologies and other EOD procedures. Participants included EOD personnel from the United States Air Force and ammunition technicians from the National Guard of the Republic of Cabo Verde.
The programme was conducted under a U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action initiative supporting African countries, highlighting Cambodia’s growing contribution to international capacity-building in mine action and explosive ordnance management.
CMAC has developed extensive expertise in dealing with landmines and ERW following decades of mine contamination in Cambodia. Its Technical Institute for Mine Action conducts both domestic and international training programmes and includes facilities developed in cooperation with Golden West.
The latest training also reflects the longstanding partnership between CMAC and Golden West, which has supported Cambodia’s mine-action sector for decades. According to Cambodian sources, Golden West has partnered with Cambodian mine-action authorities since 1998, contributing to capacity-building and technical training in EOD.
Golden West’s Applied Technology Training Center in Cambodia was developed in conjunction with CMAC and provides specialised facilities for EOD training, explosive testing and detection technology. The centre has also supported training and technical activities for humanitarian mine-action organisations operating in Cambodia and beyond.
The training of U.S. and Cabo Verde personnel underscores the international value of Cambodia’s accumulated experience in addressing explosive hazards. It also demonstrates how expertise developed through Cambodia’s own long-running mine-action challenges is increasingly being shared with countries working to strengthen their capacity to manage explosive remnants of war.
Through cooperation with international partners, CMAC has increasingly positioned Cambodia not only as a country affected by mines and unexploded ordnance, but also as a source of specialised knowledge, training and technical expertise for the wider humanitarian mine-action community.
