Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi has told Arab news channel Al-Ahdath the importance of continuity and adaptation when working in Yemen, a country where the largest amount of landmines have been planted since World World II. Al-Ahdath is a news service from Al-Arabiya TV, which covers Arab events and developments and the implications of international policies…
Ousama Algosaibi, Project Masam’s Managing Director, has announced the project’s contract extension for a sixth consecutive year, and thanked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its support and desire to continue Project Masam’s humanitarian landmine clearance efforts in Yemen. To enhance the security measures in the region and ensure Yemen can rebuild and find stability,…
Five long years of unremitting efforts and bravery by the team members of Project Masam, who are racing against time to rid Yemen of the landmine scourge, have passed. The deadly explosive devices, which have been randomly planted in the Yemeni territory in huge numbers and which do not discriminate between military and civilian, are…
Project Masam has destroyed 1,614 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on the western coast of Yemen. The bulk demolition operation, the third thisweek, included 392 anti-tank mines, 189 UXO, 22 anti-personnel mines, 16 IEDs, 514 miscellaneous fuses, and 481 artillery rounds. This demolition operation is the third since the beginning of…
The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), has praised Project Masam’s humanitarian landmine clearance efforts in Yemen as it continues to remove landmines indiscriminately planted in areas controlled by the Houthi militias. The statement issued by the 156th session of the GCC Ministerial Council,…
Project Masam has destroyed 1,356 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in its second demolition this week. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic areas have been left cluttered with anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines, along with unexploded explosive remnants of war (ERW). The Operations Room announced in…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 1,339 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Masam Operations said in a statement that the project teams removed 1,259 UXO and four IEDs along with nine banned anti-personnel mines and 67 anti-tank mines this past week alone. The demining…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 402,258 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,187 anti-personnel mines, 139,423 anti-tank mines, 7,806 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 248,842 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 47,011,090sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
Project Masam has destroyed and detonated 1,519 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s Jabal Habashi. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic areas have been left cluttered with anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines, along with unexploded explosive remnants of war (ERW). The Operations Room announced in…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 849 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), bringing the total cleared since the beginning of the month to 4,838. Masam Operations said in a statement that the project teams removed 708 UXO and one IEDs along with 16 banned…
