Daily Archives: August 27, 2023

Project Masam removes 4,338 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and improvised explosive devices

Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 4,338 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in August 2023. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that last week the teams managed to remove 11 anti-personnel mines, 67 anti-tank mines, 1,322 UXO and three IEDs, bringing the total cleared so…

Project Masam clears 412,971 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 412,971 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,298 anti-personnel mines, 140,690 anti-tank mines, 7,880 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 258,103 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 49,106,944 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…