An Afghan designer has come up with a novel tumbleweed-esque device to find and detonate mines, a device that has evolved from the wind-powered toys he made as a child. Massoud Hassani's Mine Kafon is ...

Designer and entrepreneur Massoud Hassani hopes to rid the planet of its estimated 100 million buried land mines within 10 years. That's why several years ago, he developed the Mine Kafon – a device ...

Tunisian rapper Ahmed Laabidi, widely known by his stage name Kafon, has died. According to Al Jazeera, Kafon passed away Saturday, May 10, following a severe heart attack. The outlet noted that ...

A simple device that is designed to clear some of the millions of landmines scattered around the world offers a lesson in thoughtful design and adaptation. The global statistics on land mines and ...

There are an estimated 110 million land mines planted around the world, and about 20,000 people are killed or wounded by these hidden explosions each year. Now, a Dutch organization is working on a ...

It’s a problem close to home here, well Mozambique to be precise. It took 22 years to clear 171,000 American and Russian mines laid during Mozambique’s revolution. In 1994 Human Rights Watch (HRW) ...

Massoud Hassani has once again taken to Kickstarter to raise funds for his next-generation demining system which this time takes the form of the Kafon Drone. The new drone scans the ground for mines ...