Zimbabwean who cleared Falklands mines urges rethink on 75% cut to clearance programmes

Cuthbert Mutukwa fears disastrous consequences for home country if UK cuts go ahead as it nears mine-free' status

A Zimbabwean man who helped clear hundreds of landmines from the Falkland Islands has urged Britain not to go ahead with cuts that would see the government pull funding from his home country just as it nears mine-free" status.

Cuthbert Mutukwa, 42, left his family in Zimbabwe to work for two years de-mining the Falkland Islands, the British overseas territory that was peppered with about 13,000 mines by Argentinian forces during the 1982 war.