Project Masam Team 15 today has located and dismantled five large-sized improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Usaylan district, in south Yemen’s resource-rich governorate of Shabwah. The team initially received a report from a local civilian, who believed to have spotted suspected IEDs in the Shmeisan area of Usaylan district. The demining team immediately moved to…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 1,013 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during the first week of August. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that last week the teams managed to remove 890 UXO and 123 anti-tank mines. The project’s demining teams cleared 275,097 square…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 409,646 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,283 anti-personnel mines, 140,398 anti-tank mines, 7,848 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 255,117 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 48,508,463 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Three civilians have been killed by landmines in two separate accidents in Al-Jawf governorate earlier this morning. In the Sakia area of Al-Ghayl district, Hadi Mohammed Al-Ja’ouni, in his fifties, was killed when a landmine exploded while he was grazing his cattle. Meanwhile, in the Al-Khalfain area of Khabb wa ash Sha’af district, two civilians…
A child has been killed by a Houthi landmine today while he was grazing sheep in the south of Hays district, in one of the most heavily mined areas in Yemen. The leader of Masam Team 26, Sami Saeed, confirmed that the child, a 12-year-old boy named Muhammad Amin, was killed due to the explosion…
Ousama Algosaibi, the Managing Director of Project Masam, has said that Yemen is facing a major crisis regarding the issue of landmines, which requires better engagement and more thorough action by the international community, adding that there are no signs indicating the end of the landmine threat in the near future. The Managing Director referred…
A delegation from the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) has visited the headquarters of Project Masam in Yemen’s de facto capital Aden. The landmine clearance project is in its sixth year and has received accolades nationally and internationally. During the visit, the delegation met a number of project officials and was briefed…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 625 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) last week, bringing the total number of explosives that have been removed from between 1 and 28 July to 2,815. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that last week the teams removed 456…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 408,633 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,283 anti-personnel mines, 140,275 anti-tank mines, 7,848 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 254,227 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 48,233,366 sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014,…
Project Masam teams operating in Yemen’s Marib governorate have destroyed 2,500 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the Al-Wady district. Engineer Muntather Al-Radfani, Deputy Director of the National Mine Action Program at the Marib office, confirmed that Project Masam demining teams working in the vicinity of Marib carried out today the…
