A year has passed since 12-year old Mohammed lost his right leg in a mine explosion near his home in Al-Khouah village, Taiz governorate in northern Yemen. However, he has been in pay since. Mohammed told Project Masam: “My life became very difficult after I lost my leg in a mine explosion while I was…
LIke many in Yemen, Mushir Ali’s life changed forever after he encountered a landmine while he was collecting firewood. The family man told Project Masam he is now unable to move without the help of others, but uses all his strength and determination to keep going. The former breadwinner said both his future and that…
Jamila Qasim, a mother of daughters, was out herding sheep when she walked on a landmine. This incident changed her life forever. Her lower limbs were amputated and Jamila now. This is her story, as told to Project Masam. “I went out to herd the sheep. I was walking and stepped on one of the…
Fathia Salah took risks to go in search of firewood to keep her family warm. Over the course of two months, Fathia would provide bundles of firewood until the day Fathia was stopped in her steps. While Fathia was about to lift a bundle of firewood on her back, the ground shook under her feet.…
In an update from the field, Engineer Amer Al-Bahri, Leader of Project Masam’s Team 2, confirmed that his team is working in Sae’llt Baliq in Shabwah Governorate to clear it of landmines randomly planted by the Houthi militia. Al-Bahri said that Team 2 is making great progress in Sae’llt Baliq area and work is ongoing…
A Yemeni civilian has described how people in his village remained “under siege” in their own homes for three years due to the fear of walking on a landmine. Ahmed Mubarak, who is from the Al-Hajar Kutbah area, said that the militias ravaged his village by planting landmines extensively and indiscriminately. Describing the situation, the…
The spokesman for the army in Taiz Governorate, Colonel Abdul Basit Al-Bahr, has commanded Project Masam for its humanitarian landmine clearance after it cleared swathes of land. These landmines would have continues to plague Yemenis for the next 30 years, Al-Bahr claimed. The spokesman explained that planting landmines in homes, rooftops, roads, schools, valleys, water wells,…
Nasser Saleh Hadi, a resident of the Usaylan district, has said that people in his area were unable to live normally because of fear and helplessness due to the presence of landmines, before the arrival of Project Masam’s demining team. Hadi claimed that the people of Usaylan and particularly the area of Dar al-Mansir, suffered…
Hussein Saleh Mubarak, a resident of Usaylan district, said that their district suffered a lot because of the extensive and indiscriminate planting of landmines, that have killed men, animals and plantations. Mubarak told Project Masam that his residents in his district did feel safe until Project Masam’s demining teams were dispatched to the area to…
Engineer Nasser Awad al-Sayed, Leader of Masam’s Team 6, said that his team has been working since September 10 in the Shaq Al-Tayyar area, where 35,000 square meters of land have been demined. The team leader also indicated that 20 anti-personnel mines have been removed so far from the Shaq al-Tayyar area, a desert area linking…
