"Why are Zimbabweans some of the best de-miners?" asks CNN Correspondent David McKenzie on this week's episode of "Inside Africa." Mine clearance is not something one necessarily thinks of when thinking of Mugabe's Zimbabwe. For a mere $30 million, the United States helped Zimbabwe comply with Article 5 of the Mine Ban Treaty. Years later, that noble dose of foreign aid is the gift that keeps on giving. Zimbabwean de-miners are good at their jobs, and are contributing to the stability of the continent.

Southern Sudan was heavily mined during the war in Darfur. Thousands of anti-personnel mines have been cleared since the conflict wound down. "Recently the spot-light of the humanitarian mine action community has been focused on Southern Sudan where large areas of land area contaminated with landmines and Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)," says IRIN News, a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. "The Sudan Government and the southern rebel movement are currently running a first-ever joint operation on landmines which both side are responsible for laying since their wars began in 1983."

The United Nations Development Programme, mirabile dictu, has projected an $990,000 2010-11 budget for humanitarian de-mining in Zimbabwe. It is foreign aid well spent, for Zimbabwe, and for the region.