Project Masam clears 2,279 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and improvised explosive devices

Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 2,279 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in February 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams removed 727 landmines, UXO, and IEDs last week, including six anti-personnel mines, 134 anti-tank mines and 587 UXO, bringing…

Project Masam clears 433,333 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 433,333 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,466 anti-personnel mines, 143,512 anti-tank mines, 275,354 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,001 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 54,606,534 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…

Landmine clearance in Yemen: Working to provide safe spaces, farms and schools

Landmines in Yemen have an extensive history of impacting, injuring, and killing civilians. By targeting unarmed civilians’ livelihoods and displacing them, landmines continue to hamper many aspects of life in Yemen effectively leading to the economic deterioration of families and further spread of poverty. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government troops and allied forces and…

Project Masam clears 1,552 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and improvised explosive devices

Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 1,552 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in February 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams removed 768 landmines, UXO, and IEDs last week, including two anti-personnel mines, 112 anti-tank mines and 654 UXO, bringing…

Project Masam clears 432,606 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 432,606 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,460 anti-personnel mines, 143,378 anti-tank mines, 274,767 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,001 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 54,606,534 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…

Project Masam clears 431,838 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 431,838 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,458 anti-personnel mines, 143,266 anti-tank mines, 274,113 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,001 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 54,360,002 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…

Yemenis still at higher risk as civilian deaths from Houthi landmines on the rise

At least four civilians have been killed by landmines since the beginning of February, according to a local organisation. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic areas have been left littered with anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines, along with unexploded explosive remnants of war (ERW). Whilst the Houthis’ use of landmines…

Project Masam’s field Technical Advisers receive Drone Pilot Training course to enhance technical surveys

This week, Project Masam’s Technical Advisers in Aden, Yemen, have received an in-house Drone Pilot Training course to enhance the project’s technical survey for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) capacity. The one-week DJI Drone Basic Flight Training course should add an extra level of information for technical surveys, particularly for surface-laid IEDs, including Houthi-planted passive infrared…