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…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 471,034 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,678 anti-personnel mines, 145,654 anti-tank mines, 310,541 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,161 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) cleared over 62,389,146 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 955 landmines, and unexploded ordnance in the Ghail Warka area of the Jabal Habashi district in Taiz, in central Yemen. 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 items,…
It was a call that Nasser Al-Samsom, the leader of Project Masam’s demining Team 7, was not expecting to receive. Calls made to his demining team usually follow the spotting of a landmine on a road, concerns that a metallic object could turn out to be an improvised explosive device (IED) nestled between rocks in…
Brigadier General Antony Hayward, the United Nations (UN) Special Envoy’s Military Adviser for Yemen, has visited the headquarters of the Masam Landmine Clearance Project in Marib governorate in north-central Yemen, accompanied by a UN delegation. During the visit, Hayward met with several project officials and, along with the accompanying delegation, received a brief presentation from…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have cleared 2,349 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in November 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams cleared 840 landmines and UXO last week, including 29 anti-personnel landmines, 129 anti-tank mines, and 862 UXO during the period.…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 470,416 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,677 anti-personnel mines, 145,631 anti-tank mines, 309,947 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,161 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) cleared over 62,112,356 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
