Project Masam demining teams have cleared 5,237 landmines and explosive remnants of war across Yemen so far in March 2026, continuing efforts to reduce explosive threats and protect civilians in contaminated areas. According to the project’s latest operational figures, the items removed include 17 anti personnel mines, 242 anti tank mines, 4,965 items of unexploded…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have now located and cleared 551,189 landmines and explosive threats across Yemen’s liberated areas since operations began in July 2018, according to the latest cumulative figures covering activities up to 27 March 2026. The total clearance includes 7,122 anti personnel mines, 150,682 anti tank mines, 384,967 items…
Residents in Bani Hussein village in Hiran District, north of Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate, have discovered landmines that were carried into farmland and public roads by floodwaters following a low pressure system that hit the area on Saturday (28 March). Floodwaters, or wind, can displace landmines from their original positions and transport them over long distances,…
Project Masam has warned of growing dangers from landmines and unexploded ordnance displaced by ongoing heavy rains in several Yemeni governorates, including Marib, Shabwah, Taiz, Al Jawf and Al Hudaydah. The humanitarian landmine clearance organisation said that flooding and torrential rainfall have moved mines and unexploded ordnance from previously contaminated areas into villages, residential neighbourhoods,…
