Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 463,673 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,606 anti-personnel mines, 145,306 anti-tank mines, 305,185 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,155 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 60,508,926 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Project Masam’s demining Team 9 has started clearing the sides of the main road connecting the Usaylan district to Ataq, the capital of the south-central Shabwah governorate – a battleground of Yemen’s current war. Yemen’s limited network of main highways and roads has been weaponised as a way to strip warring parties of access to…
Project Masam’s deminers have destroyed 1,023 landmines, and unexploded ordnance in the coastal Bab al-Mandab area of Dhubab District, in Yemen’s Taiz region. The demolition operation, carried out by the Project Masam’s Special Task Team, involved the demolition of 22 anti-personnel landmines, 247 anti-tank mines, 52 unexploded shells, 320 assorted fuses, four Katyusha rockets, 490…
