Duke of Sussex had followed footsteps of his late mother, Princess Diana, as he was visiting a minefield in Angola on a part of his royal tour to Africa.
On his day five in the royal tour, Harry visited the same location his mother visited in 1997 to urge the world to ban these weapons.
Prince Harry had put on a body armour and a protective visor for his engagement whose aim was to highlight the dangerous and current threats of munitions in Angola.
The 36-year-old duke had walked into an area that was once a base for anti-government forces who mined the position in 2000 before surrounding.
Moreover, Harry learnt about the efforts of the working staff to clear a very large areas of the country from military munitions.
The regional manager of the landmine, Jose Antonio, escorted Harry into the site where his staff have been working for more than a month to make it safe, hoping that they can clear it by the end of October.
Prince Harry’s engagement comes 22 years after Princess Diana had walked through the very same minefield in the African nation, with a nearly similar photos of the mother and the son while visiting the same site.
The duke said that Princess Diana had never saw the following efforts in this site, as she died in August 1997, few months before the international treaty to ban the military weapons had been signed.
Princess Diana was known for her charity work, championing causes which weren't always in the public eye. She opened the UK's first HIV/Aids clinic in 1987, for example. That helped to change attitudes to the virus.
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