Project Masam clears 500,000 mines, explosive devices, and unexploded ordnance in Yemen

Ousama Algosaibi, Managing Director of the Masam Landmine Clearance Project – Yemen has announced today (Sunday 15 June) that the project’s demining teams have successfully removed 500,000 landmines, explosive devices, and unexploded ordnance from liberated Yemeni land. Algosaibi stated that this significant figure reflects the cumulative achievements of the project since its launch in mid-2018…

Project Masam reaches historic milestone: 500,000 landmines and explosive threats cleared in Yemen

Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 500,000 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,802 anti-personnel mines, 146,655 anti-tank mines, 338,303 unexploded ordnance (UXO), and 8,240 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), cleared over 67,585,167 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…