This is Farah. Though her name means joy, landmines have left her no joy, but just a name. She recognised the pains of oppression and injustice at the age of ten. These pains have grown up with her to this very moment. At the age of eight, Farah knew that there was a coup in…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that the project teams have removed 1,045 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices last week, bringing the total number of explosives removed from early January up to 3,534. In its statement, Project Masam said that the project teams have removed 896 unexploded ordnance and three explosive devices since the…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 383.139 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,014 anti-personnel mines, 135,894 anti-tank mines, 7,676 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 233,555 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 43,389,537sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
The director of the Sabir district in The Taiz governorate has claimed his region has been badly affected by landmines. Mohamed al-Kadhi said: “Our region has suffered a lot from landmines which have been randomly planted to cause the death and injury of a large number of children and women in tragic accidents.” Al-Kadhi pointed…
First Undersecretary of Taiz Governorate, Dr. Abdul-Qawi Al-Mikhlafi, has said that Taiz is a “disaster-hit” area due to Houthi landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) heavily planted in civilian areas. In a statement, Al-Mikhlafi, said that the mines and IEDs planted by the Houthi militia in Taiz caused the death and injuries of thousands of…
