Walid Al-Bakri, a student at the College of Education in Bayhan, has said that landmines are disintegrating the Yemeni society. In a conversation with Project Masam, the student said that the number of landmines and the randomness of their planting is the biggest issue in his country. Al-Bakri explained that landmines impede life as they…
Project Masam has successfully removed and destroyed 1,526 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and various unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate. The destruction operation, in Bab al-Mandeb district, included 416 anti-tank mines, 46 UXO, 416 assorted fuses, and 648 assorted bullets. Engineer Adeeb Rajab, deputy commander of the task force for the Aden sector and…
Dr. Awad Al-Masa’bi, deputy dean of the College of Education in Bayhan, told Project Masam how the districts of Bayhan, Usaylan and Al-Ain have suffered from the intensive and indiscriminate planting of mines. Al-Masa’bi indicated that civilians in these districts have been extensively impacted by explosive threats – describing how some had lost their entire…
A student has described how Yemenis’ lives have been paused by the presence of landmines across the country. Asmaa al-Shawafi, a student at the Faculty of Education in Bayhan, told Project Masam that landmines have had a huge impact on society, the economy, the environment, and life in general and that Yemen has suffered from…
A Project Masam supervisor has confirmed that operations are continuing in the Jabal Habashi Directorate of Yemen’s Taiz Governorate. Colonel Aref Al Qahtani, in charge of Project Masam’s demining teams in Taiz Governorate, explained that Project Masam’s Team 22 was sent to Al-Shaab School in Akkad village after Jabal Habashi Directorate and the Education Department…
As an appreciation of their hard work and generosity, Project Masam’s management has given a day off to all its demining teams in Yemen. The 32 teams of engineers, distributed across eight Yemeni governorates starting from Shabwah in the east to Taiz, Hodeidah, and Hajja to the west, have been given a day off on…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 372,652 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,720 anti-personnel mines, 134,412 anti-tank mines, 7,577 improvised explosive devices and 224,943 unexploded ordnance neutralised over 40,736,537sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic areas have been left littered with Houthi anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines, along with unexploded remnants…
Younes Esmail lives in southwestern Yemen. The teenager hasn’t let a terrible landmine accident get in the way of his education. “The explosion led to the amputation of my lower limbs, and my left hand; it completely damaged my left eye, and caused the death of my uncle, who was sitting next to me,” Younes…
Eman is a young Yemeni girl who is no longer able to play with her friends in the streets of her village in the district of Hays, south of Yemen’s western Al Hudaydah Governorate. The little girl lost her right hand as a result of the explosion of a landmine planted by the Houthi militia…
Since 2015, the Houthi militia has planted landmines and explosive devices, extensively and randomly, across Yemen. Schools have sadly been one of the targets of the militia – they have been used as military barracks and have been booby-trapped – which locals claim was done to spread fear and terror among young people, and put…
