Project Masam teams have located, cleared or destroyed 2,943 landmines and unexploded ordnance in the last week across Yemen. Operating since mid-2018, Masam currently has 32 teams working in liberated areas across the country and conducts humanitarian clearance in accordance with priorities set by the Yemeni National Authority. Teams operating out of Masam’s Marib headquarters…
A deep dive into bounding fragmentation mines. These banned deadly anti-personnel landmines that spray shrapnel at roughly waist height are now not only mass produced but ‘super large’ clones are now being discovered all over liberated areas of Yemen. On Friday 19 May 2022, a deminer present at humanitarian landmine clearance programme Masam picked up…
Project Masam has reached a significant milestone after clearing its 5,000th anti-personnel landmine in Yemen. Operating since mid-2018, Masam currently has 32 teams working in liberated areas across the country and conducts humanitarian clearance in accordance with priorities set by the Yemeni National Authority. On 20 May 2022, Managing Director and Programme Manager Ousama Algosaibi…
Yemeni of Information Muammar Al-Eryani has called on the international community, the United Nations and UN Special Envoy to put pressure on the Houthi militia to halt manufacturing and laying landmines in Yemen. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines – extensively, intentionally and indiscriminately – across the…
Project Masam teams have located, cleared or destroyed 1,201 landmines and unexploded ordnance in the last week across Yemen. Operating since mid-2018, Masam currently has 32 teams working in liberated areas across the country and conducts humanitarian clearance in accordance with priorities set by the Yemeni National Authority. Teams operating out of Masam’s Marib headquarters…
Project Masam marked International Mine Awareness Day (4 April 2022) by holding a photography exhibition followed by a panel discussion with mine action experts, who shared insights into the Yemeni conflict and its impact on the proliferation of landmines. Since 2015, 4 April has been the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine…
Yahya Ali Salem is a Yemeni farmer. He used to grow grains, melons, sesame and fodder for livestock. Then he was displaced by the conflict. When his area was liberated, he was finally able to return home, to his land. What he found was an area littered with landmines. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government…
Yahya Ali Salem is a Yemeni farmer. He used to grow grains, melons, sesame and fodder for livestock. Then he was displaced by the conflict. When his area was liberated, he was finally able to return home, to his land. What he found was an area littered with landmines. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government…
Giving an update about the situation in Yemen’s Ataq Directorate in Shabwah Governorate, the Deputy Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action (YEMAC) in Marib, Muntather Al-Radfani discussed YEMAC and Masam’s efforts to clear booby-trapped landmines. Yemen’s central energy-rich Shabwah province has been a central frontline in the conflict between Houthi militias and pro-government forces and has…
Giving an update about the situation in Yemen’s Ataq Directorate in Shabwah Governorate, the Deputy Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action (YEMAC) in Marib, Muntather Al-Radfani discussed YEMAC and Masam’s efforts to clear booby-trapped landmines. Yemen’s central energy-rich Shabwah province has been a central frontline in the conflict between Houthi militias and pro-government forces…
