Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have cleared 2,224 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in December 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams cleared 570 landmines and UXO last week, including two anti-personnel landmines, 50 anti-tank mines, 508 UXO, and 10 IEDs during…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 473,258 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,687 anti-personnel mines, 145,808 anti-tank mines, 312,583 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,180 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) cleared over 63,077,026 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Project Masam has cleared six powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs) left behind by Houthis militias after civilians in Yemen’s Taiz region this month discovered and reported the presence of large bombs in an agricultural area, averting a major tragedy. Since at least 2014, between two and three million potentially deadly landmines and IEDs have been…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have cleared 1,654 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in December 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams cleared 846 landmines and UXO last week, including three anti-personnel landmines, 39 anti-tank mines, 803 UXO, and one IED during…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 472,688 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,685 anti-personnel mines, 145,758 anti-tank mines, 312,075 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,170 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) cleared over 62,808,362 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have cleared 808 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in December 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams cleared 808 landmines and UXO last week, including four anti-personnel landmines, 65 anti-tank mines, 731 UXO, and eight IEDs during…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 471,842 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,682 anti-personnel mines, 145,719 anti-tank mines, 311,272 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,169 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) cleared over 62,593,605 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Project Masam’s deminers have destroyed 1,359 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…
Ousama Algosaibi, the Managing Director of the ‘Masam’ Landmine Clearance Project – Yemen, has thanked the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries following commendatory remarks made about the project’s humanitarian landmine clearance operations in Yemen. A Saudi-funded multi-national humanitarian landmine clearance project working in liberated areas of Yemen, Project Masam announced the extension of its contract…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have cleared 2,967 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in November 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams cleared 618 landmines and UXO last week, including one anti-personnel landmine, 23 anti-tank mines, and 594 UXO during the period. This brings…
