Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 1,085 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), bringing the total cleared since the beginning of the month to 3,114. Masam Operations said in a statement that the project teams removed 901 UXOs and five IEDs along with 20 banned…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 399,195 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,151 anti-personnel mines, 139,067 anti-tank mines, 7,788 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 246,189 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 46,219,580sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
The leader of Project Masam Team 12 has confirmed that his team secured 14 minefields during the past year in several villages and populated areas in the Harib district, west of Yemen’s Marib governorate. The minefields his team secured are located in al-Hashfa, al-Haysha, and Um Risha areas among many others, he said, adding that…
With every mine removed and destroyed, a life is saved in Yemen. Ensuring life without landmines in Yemen is Project Masam’s main mission and it has harnessed deminers’ energies and capabilities for over five years now. In this context, Project Masam’s Team 25 was able to restore life to civilians’ farms in Wadi Dhama in…
In every area where Project Masam has worked, the impact of its humanitarian landmine clearance work is visible, and the success stories that its demining teams are writing in Yemen are many and varied, from securing roads to allowing displaced civilians to return home. In the Jaabour Al Salim area of Usaylan district in Yemen’s…
The leader of Project Masam’s Team 26 has confirmed that his team has succeeded in securing a civilian’s farm in the Al-Akbar area of the Hays district of Yemen’s Al-Hodeidah governorate. The team leader said that his team received a report from a civilian stating that there was an improvised explosive device (IED) in his…
Project Masam has destroyed 1,047 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Bab al-Mandab province of Yemen’s Taiz governorate. The detonation operation, which was carried out by Masam specialised teams today, included 212 anti-tank mines and 25 anti-personnel mines, as well as 89 artillery shells, 468 rounds of ammunition, and 237 varied fuses.…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 896 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), bringing the total cleared since the beginning of the month to 2,029. Masam Operations said in a statement that the project teams removed 728 UXOs and one IED along with 11 banned…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 398,110 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,131 anti-personnel mines, 138,908 anti-tank mines, 7,783 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 245,288 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 45,952,405sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
In response to a report filed by a civilian, Project Masam’s Survey Team launched a surveyance and clearance operation in the pastures in Al-Darb area of Harib district, south of Yemen’s Marib governorate. 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,…
