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Masam removes 875 mines, exploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices

NewsBy Elsa Buchanan May 28, 2023

Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 875 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), bringing the total cleared since the beginning of the month to 3,989. Masam Operations said in a statement that the project teams removed 686 UXOs and 13 IEDs along with 11 banned…

Masam clears 400,070 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

NewsBy Elsa Buchanan May 28, 2023

Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 400,070 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,162 anti-personnel mines, 139,232 anti-tank mines, 7,801 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 246,875 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 46,439,132sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…