The Undersecretary for Defense and Security Affairs of Taiz Governorate, Major General Abdul Karim Al-Sabri, has said that Taiz governorate has suffered a lot from the indiscriminating planting of mines, which continues to bring tragedies and painful losses for Yemenis. Al-Sabri indicated also that the militias spared no effort in planting mines of all sizes and…
Stories of pain and tragedy are similar across Yemen. As soon as one wound heals, other wounds open up. Perhaps the deepest and most painful wounds are those afflicting children, which suffer as a result of Houthi remnants of war – including improvised explosive devices (IEDs), landmines and other unexploded ordnance – in various Yemeni…
Project Masam’s management has announced that the project’s demining teams have cleared 5,084 mines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IED) during the month of November. Masam management added in a statement that, during the past month, the project teams removed 3,865 UXO and 79 IEDs. The statement, which was published on December 4,…
Stories of pain and tragedy are similar across Yemen. As soon as one wound heals, other wounds open up. Perhaps the deepest and most painful wounds are those afflicting children, which suffer as a result of Houthi remnants of war – including improvised explosive devices (IEDs), landmines and other unexploded ordnance – in various Yemeni…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 375,201 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,912 anti-personnel mines, 134,745 anti-tank mines, 7,636 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 226,908 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 41,367,166sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
The Undersecretary of Taiz Governorate, Major General Abdul Karim Al-Sabri, confirmed that Project Masam has managed to secure six districts in Taiz Governorate, allowing for the return the displaced after securing the roads leading to houses, schools, water sources, and farms. In an exclusive interview with Project Masam, Major General Al-Sabri said that the Houthi…
The leader of Project Masam’s Team 6 has confirmed the clearing of 35,000 square meters in Shaqt al-Tayyar area in the Usaylan desert and the removal of 20 anti-personnel mines. Engineer Nasser Al-Sayed explained that the area, known as minefield 2, has been secured and a number of landmines and explosive devices planted by the…
Team 22 Masam removed an explosive device and unexploded ordnance from Al-Shaab School, Jabal Habashi District in Taiz. In an interview, Engineer Abdel Salam Thabet, a deminer working in Team 22, said that his team was able to remove an explosive device and a deadly explosive shell from under the rubble of Al-Shaab School in…
Project Masam continues to welcome local reports of potential minefields in new areas, which invariably contribute to helping its humanitarian landmine clearance operations across Yemen. Engineer Adib Rajab, Deputy Team Leader of Masam’s Special Task Team, said that Project Masam is quick to respond to any report of suspicious devices, as it has the capacity…
Adel Ghanem, chief of operations of the 17th Southern Giants Brigades in Yemen’s Bab al-Mandeb, has said that Project Masam was fast to intervene after the discovery of landmines and explosive devices in the area. One of Project Masam’s teams working in Bab al-Mandeb and the West Coast immediately responded to the report and dispatched…
