Anti-personnel mines in warfare Military experts said that anti-personnel mines, often fired from artillery systems or planted by sappers mechanically, help Ukraine inflict casualties on advancing ...

GONDOKORO, South Sudan (AP) — As South Sudan struggles for peace, it’s still cleaning up the deadly threat posed by thousands of land mines from previous conflict decades ago.

In late 2024, at the end of Joe Biden’s presidency, the US allowed the Ukrainians to place anti-personnel mines; the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry justified this by noting that Russia, which is not ...

While those pressure plate mines are widespread in Ukraine, so too are seismic devices which explode based on any movement around them. That makes mine clearance especially challenging.

The partial collapse of a traditional gold mine in Sudan’s northeast has killed 11 miners and wounded seven others, according to the state mining company, as a brutal civil war between the ...

More than 5,000 South Sudanese have been killed or injured by land mines and unexploded ordnance since 2004, according to the U.N. Mine Action Service (UNMAS).

Mines don’t care if the war is over—they wait, hidden and patient, to turn a child’s step or a farmer’s plow into another casualty long after the ceasefire is signed.