Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have now located and destroyed a total of 506,437 explosive devices in Yemen’s liberated areas since the project’s launch in mid-2018. This total includes 6,823 anti-personnel mines, 146,908 anti-tank mines, 344,461 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO), and 8,245 improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Clearance operations have covered over…
Landmines and unexploded ordnance claimed the lives or caused injuries to 107 Yemenis during the first half of 2025, according to Yemen Today satellite channel. Citing figures from international non-governmental organisation Save the Children, the channel reported that children remain the most affected by Houthi-laid mines, which continue to litter residential neighbourhoods, roads leading to…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams removed a total of 1,171 explosive devices during the week of 5 – 11 July 2025, including one anti-personnel mine, 46 anti-tank mines, and 1,124 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO). No improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were recorded. Teams also cleared 191,469 square metres of land during this…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have now located and destroyed a total of 505,466 explosive devices in Yemen’s liberated areas since the project’s launch in mid-2018. This total includes 6,822 anti-personnel mines, 146,830 anti-tank mines, 343,570 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO), and 8,244 improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Clearance operations have covered over…
For more than a decade, Yemen’s communities have lived among landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO). Since our launch in mid-2018, Project Masam’s Yemeni and international specialists have located and destroyed more than 504,000 explosive threats, clearing over 68 million square metres of land; a task that saves lives every single day.…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams cleared a total of 1,559 explosive devices, including landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), during July 2025. According to Project Masam’s Operations Room, the teams removed 1,559 explosive items during the final week 28 June – 4 July, including one anti-personnel mine, 45 anti-tank…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have now located and destroyed a total of 504,295 explosive devices in Yemen’s liberated areas since the project’s launch in mid-2018. This total includes 6,821 anti-personnel mines, 146,784 anti-tank mines, 342,446 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO), and 8,244 improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Clearance operations have covered over…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams cleared a total of 5,192 explosive devices – including landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during June 2025. According to Project Masam’s Operations Room, the teams removed 1,493 explosive items during the week of 21–27 June, including 14 anti-personnel mines, 27 anti-tank mines, 1,448…
Project Masam has announced that its teams have located and destroyed a total of 502,736 explosive devices in Yemen’s liberated areas since the project’s inception in mid-2018. These include 6,820 anti-personnel mines, 146,739 anti-tank mines, 340,933 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,244 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), cleared across 67,971,272 square metres of land. Since the conflict between…
Project Masam’s deminers have destroyed 4,620 landmines, and unexploded ordnance in the Wadi Dufs area of Zinjibar in Abyan Governorate, east of Aden, Yemen’s de facto capital. In alignment with the global mine action sector, Project Masam’s responsibilities include the clearance, removal or destruction of landmines stockpile and explosive remnants of war. By destroying the explosive…
