Masam removes 849 mines, UXOs, and IEDs

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Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 849 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), bringing the total cleared since the beginning of the month to 4,838. Masam Operations said in a statement that the project teams removed 708 UXO and one IEDs along with 16 banned…

Masam clears 400,919 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

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Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 400,919 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,178 anti-personnel mines, 139,356 anti-tank mines, 7,802 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 247,583 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 46,732,408sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…