Project Masam has announced that its teams have located and destroyed a total of 501,243 explosive devices in Yemen’s liberated areas since the project’s inception in mid-2018.
These include 6,802 anti-personnel mines, 146,712 anti-tank mines, 339,485 unexploded ordnance (UXO), and 8,240 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), cleared across 67,748,706 square metres of land.
Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, strategic areas have been left heavily contaminated with Houthi-laid anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, as well as remnants of war.
In the week of 14–20 June 2025, Project Masam’s deminers removed 1,243 deadly items, including 4 anti-personnel landmines, 57 anti-tank mines, and 1,182 UXO. No IEDs were recorded that week. The teams cleared 163,539 square metres of land during the same period, according to Project Masam Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi.
It is estimated that up to five million people have been forced to flee their homes since the beginning of the conflict in Yemen—many driven away by the presence of landmines and UXO on their land.
Project Masam’s mission prioritizes humanitarian needs—focusing clearance on villages, roads, schools, and other civilian infrastructure to ensure the safe movement of people and aid.
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