The deputy governor of Yemen’s Marib governorate, Abdullah Ahmed al-Bakry, has visited Project Masam’s headquarters to congratulate its staff on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha holiday. Marib governorate is among Yemen’s most landmine-contaminated regions. During the visit, al-Bakry praised the role of Project Masam in saving the lives of millions of Yemenis from the…
The Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council President Rashad al-Alimi will award the National Program for Mine Action and Project Masam the Medal of Courage, Yemen Daily News has announced today. On Monday, June 26, Al-Alimi issued two decrees – Republican Decree No. (15) of 2023, Article 1 and Republican Decree No. (16) of 2023, Article 1 –…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 405,213 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,258 anti-personnel mines, 139,709 anti-tank mines, 7,806 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 251,410 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 47,485,089 sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014,…
On Monday, June 19, 2023, Project Masam welcomed Jose Dos Santos, the Director of Security at the United Nations Office in Marib, Yemen in its headquarters. Dos Santos’ role and function is to ensure the safety of displaced Yemeni civilians in the resettlement areas, by ensuring that the areas in which they are resettled are…
Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi has told Arab news channel Al-Ahdath the importance of continuity and adaptation when working in Yemen, a country where the largest amount of landmines have been planted since World World II. Al-Ahdath is a news service from Al-Arabiya TV, which covers Arab events and developments and the implications of international policies…
Ousama Algosaibi, Project Masam’s Managing Director, has announced the project’s contract extension for a sixth consecutive year, and thanked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its support and desire to continue Project Masam’s humanitarian landmine clearance efforts in Yemen. To enhance the security measures in the region and ensure Yemen can rebuild and find stability,…
Five long years of unremitting efforts and bravery by the team members of Project Masam, who are racing against time to rid Yemen of the landmine scourge, have passed. The deadly explosive devices, which have been randomly planted in the Yemeni territory in huge numbers and which do not discriminate between military and civilian, are…
Project Masam has destroyed 1,614 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on the western coast of Yemen. The bulk demolition operation, the third thisweek, included 392 anti-tank mines, 189 UXO, 22 anti-personnel mines, 16 IEDs, 514 miscellaneous fuses, and 481 artillery rounds. This demolition operation is the third since the beginning of…
The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), has praised Project Masam’s humanitarian landmine clearance efforts in Yemen as it continues to remove landmines indiscriminately planted in areas controlled by the Houthi militias. The statement issued by the 156th session of the GCC Ministerial Council,…
Project Masam has destroyed 1,356 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in its second demolition this week. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic areas have been left cluttered with anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines, along with unexploded explosive remnants of war (ERW). The Operations Room announced in…
