Abdu Sahili is a 16-year-old from Al-Oqda village in the Bani Hassan area of Abs District, Hajjah Governorate. Before the conflict, he helped his family by grazing livestock and working on their farmland. When Houthi forces withdrew from the area, they left behind landmines and explosive devices in farms, paths, and residential areas. The land…
The Managing Director of the Masam Landmine Clearance Project – Yemen, Ousama Algosaibi, has conducted a field visit to Midi District in Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate, where he met with the leaders of the demining teams working on mine and explosive clearance operations. The visit forms part of Project Masam’s ongoing efforts to protect civilians and…
The Masam Landmine Clearance Project – Yemen continues its humanitarian mission in Shabwah Governorate, working to protect civilians and safeguard Yemen’s cultural heritage from the threat of landmines. Project Masam’s demining teams have announced the full clearance of the archaeological city of Timna, located in the Usaylan District – the historic capital of the ancient…
As of 17 October 2025, Project Masam’s demining teams have cleared a total of 3,325 explosive devices and 805,029 square metres of land across Yemen during October 2025. These latest figures highlight the project’s ongoing nationwide operations to safeguard civilians and enable safe access to homes, roads, and vital infrastructure. During the most recent reporting…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have now located and destroyed 519,824 explosive devices in Yemen’s liberated areas since the project began in mid-2018. Since the conflict escalated in 2014 between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias, vast areas of the country have been heavily contaminated with mines, UXO, and other remnants of…
Brigadier General Ameen Saleh Al-Aqili, Director of the Yemen Executive Mine Action Centre (YEMAC), praised Project Masam for its ongoing humanitarian work clearing landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) across Yemen. His comments came during a large demolition operation involving the destruction of a significant quantity of landmines and munitions collected by Project Masam’s…
Team 38 of the Masam Landmine Clearance Project – Yemen has discovered an anti-tank minefield near the populated village of Al-Makhazen in the Midi district, north of Hajjah Governorate, following a report from a local resident. Community reports have become an increasingly important part of Project Masam’s operations, as years of explosive ordnance risk education…
Demining teams from the Masam Landmine Clearance Project – Yemen have brought new hope to farmers in the Usaylan district of Shabwah Governorate, where mines planted by Houthi militias had turned fertile agricultural lands into deadly fields for years. Shabwah, like many of Yemen’s liberated governorates, has faced extensive landmine contamination due to shifting front…
A survey team from the Masam Landmine Clearance Project – Yemen has successfully removed several mines that were swept into the Al-Ajasher area of Kitaf district, Saada Governorate, by recent floods. Saada is among Yemen’s most heavily mined governorates, where years of conflict have left widespread contamination. Seasonal floods often expose or displace buried explosives,…
As the new academic year begins, teams from the Masam Landmine Clearance Project – Yemen have intensified their explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) campaigns in schools across Yemen’s west coast. The initiative aims to protect students from the dangers of explosive remnants of war scattered throughout their communities. The west coast remains one of Yemen’s…
