In the village of Bani Zuhair, west of Hays district, south of Yemen’s Hodeidah governorate, Project Masam demining teams have cleared and secured the village’s healthcare centre, which had been unable to provide essential medical care services since the Houthi takeover of 2014. Plagued by landmines, strategic Hays links three governorates of upmost importance: Al-Hodeidah,…
Masam’s Team 25 has brought life back to civilians’ farms in Wadi Dhama, Maqbanah district, in Yemen’s Taiz governorate, after removing more than 30 anti-tank mines. In a statement, the deputy leader of Team 25 confirmed that the landmines that were removed were washed away by torrential rains from the militia-controlled areas to civilian areas…
Project Masam has carried out a clearance operation using the TJET500 pyrotechnic torch technique to burn a number of dangerous and decayed landmines in Bani Zuhair area, west of Hays district in Al Hudeidah governorate. The destruction operation, which was carried out by Masam’s special task team, included three decayed landmines, which posed a direct…
The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Yemen, who supervises the Saudi Program for the Development and Reconstruction of Yemen, said that Saudi Arabia continues to support their “Yemeni brothers” across a number of areas including politico-economic, relief, and development fields, under the directives of King Salman bin Abdulaziz and His Highness the…
His Excellency Rashad al-Alimi of the Republic of Yemen and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Muhammad Al Jaber, visited Project Masam’s headquarters in a show of force in the interim capital Aden. President Al-Alimi, the head of Yemen‘s Presidential Leadership Council, expressed his thanks and gratitude for the Kingdom of…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 397,214 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,120 anti-personnel mines, 138,752 anti-tank mines, 7,782 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 244,560 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 45,600,070sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic areas have…
For the fourth month, Project Masam’s Team 4 continues the process of securing and removing landmines in important archaeological areas in Haid Bin Aqeel area in Usaylan district of Yemen’s Shabwah governorate. Haid Bin Aqeel, which dates back to the 4th century BC, was liberated in 2017. In a statement to Project Masam media office,…
Project Masam engineering teams operating in Shabwah governorate have resumed their humanitarian clearance work in seven mined areas following the Eid Al-Fitr holiday. Before redeploying and distributing the demining teams, Deputy Director of the National Mine Action Program in Ma’rib, Muntadher Al-Radfani, met with Project Masam’s demining teams. Al-Radfani extended Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama…
A young man was killed and another was injured after a landmine planted by the Houthi militia exploded in the Al-Tuhayta district, south of Hodeidah governorate, west of Yemen. According to local sources, a 29-year-old young man was killed, while another, aged 43, was wounded as a result of the explosion of a mine planted…
After a long period spent away from his farm, an older Yemeni man has finally been able to set foot on his land, which had been heavily contaminated by landmines. The older man, who we chose not to identify, confirmed that landmines had been extensively planted across his farm before Project Masam travelled to his…
