Landmines can hamper or even deny children’s fundamental right to a safe education, and Yemen is a tragic example of the suffering caused by heavily mined schools. Many children in the war-torn country have witnessed their schools being taken over by landmines – rendering them inaccessible – or destroyed by landmine explosions. One such school…
This is Farah. Though her name means joy, landmines have left her no joy, but just a name. She recognised the pains of oppression and injustice at the age of ten. These pains have grown up with her to this very moment. At the age of eight, Farah knew that there was a coup in…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that the project teams have removed 1,045 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices last week, bringing the total number of explosives removed from early January up to 3,534. In its statement, Project Masam said that the project teams have removed 896 unexploded ordnance and three explosive devices since the…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 383.139 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,014 anti-personnel mines, 135,894 anti-tank mines, 7,676 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 233,555 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 43,389,537sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
The director of the Sabir district in The Taiz governorate has claimed his region has been badly affected by landmines. Mohamed al-Kadhi said: “Our region has suffered a lot from landmines which have been randomly planted to cause the death and injury of a large number of children and women in tragic accidents.” Al-Kadhi pointed…
First Undersecretary of Taiz Governorate, Dr. Abdul-Qawi Al-Mikhlafi, has said that Taiz is a “disaster-hit” area due to Houthi landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) heavily planted in civilian areas. In a statement, Al-Mikhlafi, said that the mines and IEDs planted by the Houthi militia in Taiz caused the death and injuries of thousands of…
On 20 February, Project Masam is remembering five colleagues killed in the line of duty four years ago. Project Masam mourns the loss of the team of five demining specialists, who lost their lives while attempting to bring safety and security to the Yemeni people on 20 February 2019 in the central province of Marib.…
The director of the Yemeni Observation and Documentation Centre for Mines and Unexploded Ordnance in Taiz has said that landmine clearance has largely contributed to bringing life back to normal in several villages and areas affected by landmines. In a statement, Dr. Fadl Saleh Al-Bukhari, said that the centre is witnessing the positive role played…
Project Masam has destroyed and detonated 686 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices in the Bab al-Mandab district in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz. In a statement, Engineer Yasser Salem Al-Mazloumi, deputy leader of the task force in Aden and the West Coast Sector, said that the destruction operation carried out by Masam on January…
Yemen is close to becoming the most landmine contaminated country since World War II, according to Somaya Al-Mahmoud, Director of Public Relations and Media Affairs Officer of Project Masam, said in an interview with Al-Qahera News. Masam is a humanitarian project launched under the umbrella of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief)…
