India, July 17 -- Prince Harry followed in his late mother Princess Diana's footsteps on Wednesday by wearing a flak jacket and walking down a path in an active land minefield in Angola to raise awareness for HALO Trust, a charity working on clearing explosives from old war zones.

Princess Diana was also working with the same organisation when she went to the southern African nation in January 1997 and walked through the active minefield, bringing international attention to the threat posed by the weapon to civilians. Her trip came just seven months before she was killed in a car crash in Paris.

The Duke of Sussex met families living in a remote village in Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola, near the world's largest minefield, as part o...