Masam removes 1,339 mines, UXOs, and IEDs

Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 1,339 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Masam Operations said in a statement that the project teams removed 1,259 UXO and four IEDs along with nine banned anti-personnel mines and 67 anti-tank mines this past week alone. The demining…

Masam clears 402,258 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 402,258 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,187 anti-personnel mines, 139,423 anti-tank mines, 7,806 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 248,842 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 47,011,090sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…