Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have now located and destroyed 515,219 explosive devices in Yemen’s liberated areas since the project began in mid-2018. This cumulative total includes 6,877 anti-personnel mines, 147,269 anti-tank mines, 352,797 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO), and 8,276 improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Over this period, clearance operations have made…
Project Masam’s demining Team 9 has carried out a explosive ordnance risk awareness campaign in Yakhtul village, Al-Makha District in western Yemen. Western Yemen is heavily contaminated with landmines because Houthi forces have planted vast numbers of explosives during the conflict, often in civilian areas and far from frontlines. As they withdraw, they frequently lay…
Project Masam has carried out an operation on Thursday (18 September) to demolish 6,183 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices in the Wadi Dufs area of Zinjibar District, Abyan Governorate. Abyan Governorate is located in southern Yemen, along the Gulf of Aden, east of Aden Governorate. The operation was conducted by Special Task Team 1…
Project Masam’s demining Team 16 is continuing its mine clearance operations in the Usaylan district of Shabwah Governorate. Since early June, the team has been surveying and clearing mine-contaminated Area No. 96 in the Bir Matash region. The conflict in Yemen has left many areas contaminated with landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), particularly those…
A new United Nations (UN) briefing to the Security Council has sounded the alarm over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Yemen, warning that the country faces “an alarming and dangerous intensification of hostilities” alongside one of the world’s worst hunger emergencies. UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg described Yemen as “both a mirror and a magnifier…
Mohammed Yaqub, Deputy Governor of Hajjah, expressed deep gratitude to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its steadfast support in Yemen, crediting King Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the Saudi government for helping communities reclaim their lives in liberated areas. Hajjah governorate, located in northwestern Yemen, has been one of the…
Project Masam’s demining Team 38 has carried out an explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) campaign in the village of Al-Makhzen in Midi District, northern Hajjah Governorate, Yemen. The campaign aims to raise awareness (especially among children) about the dangers of landmines and other explosive remnants of war and to reduce civilian casualties in a region…
Al-Hobeisana Hill rises high above the city of Taiz. Once a military stronghold for Houthi forces, it is now a dangerous area contaminated with landmines and explosive devices left from years of conflict. Taiz has been one of Yemen’s most fiercely contested cities since the war began in 2015. Its strategic position linking northern and…
The Deputy Governor of Hajjah governorate, Mohammed Yaqoub, has warned the liberated districts of Hajjah are facing a severe humanitarian crisis because of mines and explosive devices planted by Houthi militias. Years of fighting in Hajjah between Houthi forces and government-backed troops left large areas contaminated, as Houthi fighters planted landmines and improvised explosive devices…
Abdullah Fayedi and his family were forced to flee their village when fighting erupted during Yemen’s long conflict. Like thousands of others, they spent years displaced inside the country, moving from one temporary shelter to another as the war destroyed homes, farms, and livelihoods. After many years of displacement, Abdullah finally returned to his liberated…
