Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 454,688 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,559 anti-personnel mines, 144,901 anti-tank mines, 295,126 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,102 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 58,654,867 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Two civilians from the same family have been injured by a landmine left by Houthi militants in the village of Al-Sa’ila, located between Al-Shu’ub and Al-Marjim, north of Hays in Hudaydah governorate, on Yemen’s Red Sea coast. Local sources report that Ahmed Hassan Qassim and his son Ali Ahmed Hassan were en route to the…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 4,900 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in July 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams removed 670 landmines and UXO last week, including five anti-personnel landmines, 47 anti-tank mines, 570 UXO and 21 IEDs, bringing the…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 453,968 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,556 anti-personnel mines, 144,845 anti-tank mines, 294,479 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,088 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 58,454,760 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
A new report from the Yemeni Ministry of Interior has highlighted Project Masam’s humanitarian landmine clearance efforts in Yemen, describing the work undergone to remove landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other unexploded remnants of war as “critical”. Published on the ministry’s website on 31 July and compiled by Security Media, the translated Arabic report…
