Project Masam’s management has announced that the project’s demining teams have cleared 5,084 mines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IED) during the month of November. Masam management added in a statement that, during the past month, the project teams removed 3,865 UXO and 79 IEDs. The statement, which was published on December 4,…
Stories of pain and tragedy are similar across Yemen. As soon as one wound heals, other wounds open up. Perhaps the deepest and most painful wounds are those afflicting children, which suffer as a result of Houthi remnants of war – including improvised explosive devices (IEDs), landmines and other unexploded ordnance – in various Yemeni…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 375,201 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,912 anti-personnel mines, 134,745 anti-tank mines, 7,636 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 226,908 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 41,367,166sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
The Undersecretary of Taiz Governorate, Major General Abdul Karim Al-Sabri, confirmed that Project Masam has managed to secure six districts in Taiz Governorate, allowing for the return the displaced after securing the roads leading to houses, schools, water sources, and farms. In an exclusive interview with Project Masam, Major General Al-Sabri said that the Houthi…
