As Project Masam’s teams continue to make their contribution to Yemen by carrying out difficult and complex humanitarian landmine clearance work for the sixth year in a row, hundreds, if not thousands, of people are enjoying a newly found safety. Most of the success stories that we are hearing are embodied in the return of…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 4,338 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in August 2023. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that last week the teams managed to remove 11 anti-personnel mines, 67 anti-tank mines, 1,322 UXO and three IEDs, bringing the total cleared so…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 412,971 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,298 anti-personnel mines, 140,690 anti-tank mines, 7,880 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 258,103 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 49,106,944 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
A civilian was killed and two others were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in the al-Durayhimi district, south of Hodeidah in Yemen, two days after two civilians were killed in the same district. According to a local source, a camouflaged IED planted by the Houthi militia killed a civilian and seriously injured…
Project Masam has carried out the bulk demolition of 1,149 landmines, explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Bab al-Mandab, in Yemen’s southern Taiz Governorate. The demolition operation, which was carried out by Project Masam’s Special Task Team, included 132 anti-tank mines, 993 UXO, in addition to 12 anti-personnel mines, and 12 IEDs. In…
Project Masam’s Team 20 has removed two anti-tank mines that were planted on a road leading to a water well in the Al-Maraweed area, Hays district in Yemen’s Al-Hudaydah governorate. In an statement, the team leader said that the mines were planted on a road used daily by children who fetch water from the well…
Project Masam’s Team 26 has announced that it has defused an explosive device in the vicinity of civilian homes in Wadi Al-Akbar, Al-Khawkhah district in Al-Hodeidah governorate. In a statement, the leader of Team 26 said that the improvised explosive device (IED), which had been manufactured by the Houthis, posed a threat to the lives…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 2,935 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in August 2023. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that last week the teams managed to remove two anti-personnel mines, 113 anti-tank mines, 738 UXO and 14 IEDs, bringing the total cleared so…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 411,568 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,287 anti-personnel mines, 140,623 anti-tank mines, 7,877 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 256,781unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 48,738,891 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014,…
The Faculty of Sharia and Law of the University of Saba Region in the eastern Yemeni governorate of Marib Governorate has awarded Project Masam with a Shield of Loyalty in recognition of its mine clearance work in the region. On Thursday (17 August), lawyer Assem Khamis, Chairman of the Preparatory Committee of the Law Ambassadors…
