On 22 August, Project Masam welcomed Marie-Louise Tougas, an International Human Rights Law expert and member of the United Nations Security Council Panel of Eminent Experts on Yemen. Given the sheer scope and number of the violations occurring in Yemen in the past seven years since the conflict started, the UN Group of Experts said it…
Despite huge progress in demining made in recent years in Yemen, there is still a lot of work to be done if landmines are to no longer represent a risk to civilians’ health, safety and lives, the Undersecretary for Technical Affairs in Al Jawf Governorate has said. Since 2015, Yemen’s Houthi militia have and are still routinely employing…
So far since mid-2018, Project Masam has cleared 6,081 Improvised Explosive Devices, known as IEDs across Yemen. IEDs can come in many forms, with the most sophisticated ones assembled to cause huge damage and fatalities. Unfortunately, there has been a rise in IED ‘attacks’ across Yemen, due to Houthi militias’ growing use of homemade IEDs,…
As Swedish diplomat Hans Grundberg was appointed as the new UN Special Envoy for Yemen on 6 August, effectively supporting the international and regional efforts on achieving the political settlement in Yemen, Project Masam continues to witness a trail of landmines planted by the Houthi militias as they retreat from areas in Al-Jawf province. Fighting…
On 27 May 2021, Masam was called after a mine laid by Houthi militias exploded on a boat in the Jabal Sheikh Saeed area of the strategic Bab Al-Mandab Strait. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines across Yemen. Coastal communities in Yemen are direct victims of these…
18 civilians have been killed by landmines in Yemen between April and June 2021, a local rights-advocacy organisation has revealed. Since 2015, Yemen’s Houthi militia, have and are still routinely employing landmines directly against civilians – extensively and indiscriminately. Terrorised civilian populations are forced to leave their cities and villages, agricultural land and schools. Mines…
Project Masam has joined a new campaign to highlight the breadth and depth of Yemeni projects and individuals working for peace. The campaign is led by the Yemen Policy Center, an independent think tank established in 2020 by a group of Yemeni and German researchers associated with the Yemen Polling Center, a Yemeni NGO, headquartered…
Hundreds of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, have been affected by landmines and other explosive items planted by Houthi militias, an advisor to the Minister of Youth and Sports has said. Since 2015, Yemen’s Houthi militia, have and are still routinely employing landmines directly against civilians – extensively and indiscriminately. Deployed offensively, landmines…
Maca, Dora, Henk, Lina, Sebes, Zekk, Niko… These are the furry members of Project Masam’s elite K9 team, trained to keep teams safe by locating trace amounts of explosives and alerting their handlers. With a sense of smell that is 10,000 to 100,000 times more acute than humans’, dogs can be used in different roles within…
