Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 418,579 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,345 anti-personnel mines, 141,322 anti-tank mines, 263,015 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 7,897 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 50,546,564 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Brigadier General Ameen al-Aqili, director of Yemen’s National Mine Action Programme, has said that landmines have killed more than 10,000 civilians in Yemen, with the number of deaths expected to be significantly higher than current reports. In a recorded interview with Project Masam, al-Aqili explained that mines have spread widely and significantly in Yemen since the…
In an interview with TV Channel Yemen Today, Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi has said that peace talks between warring parties in the Yemen war could prove beneficial if the Houthis agree to hand over maps and information pertaining to minefields planted across the country. In an effort to help Yemen deal with the…
As part of its efforts to clear Yemeni land of landmines, Project Masam has carried out the bulk demolition of 480 landmines, improvised explosives devices (IEDs), and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s north-central Marib governorate. In a statement, the leader Project Masam’s Special Task Team confirmed that the demolition process included all explosives that had…
Project Masam is working on ensuring the demining of vital facilities to enable Yemenis to restore their normal social, economic, health, and cultural life. This includes water sources, which are a top priority for the project. This week, Project Masam’s team 11 has secured a water well on which the residents of the Mablaqa area,…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 730 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in September 2023. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams managed to remove five anti-personnel mines, 105 anti-tank mines, 617 UXO and three IEDs since the beginning of the…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 417,833 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,343 anti-personnel mines, 141,209 anti-tank mines, 262,384 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 7,897 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 50,132,331 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Everywhere you go in Yemen, you will find honey. Whether it is with your masoob breakfast (a delicious dish of banana, bread, dates, spices and of course Yemeni honey), in your lunchtime honeycomb bread desert of bint al sahn or areeka, for a late evening sweet treat, Yemen honey is undeniably interlinked to Yemeni life.…
Despite the huge number of indiscriminately planted landmines, Ousama Algosaibi, Project Masam’s Managing Director, said that statistics indicate the success of the project’s demining teams in clearing 417,103 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) between June 2018 and now. In a series of tweets published today on his personal account on the…
As part of his goal to improve the nature of the work of Project Masam’s demining teams in Yemen, Ousama Algosaibi, the project’s Managing Director, carried out an inspection visit to observe the progress of the field teams in Aden and across Yemen’s West Coast. Algosaibi was welcomed by the project’s Deputy Managing Director Gus…
