Project Masam 2025 Year in Review: Continued clearance, operational milestones and humanitarian impact

As 2025 comes to an end, Project Masam concludes a year of sustained humanitarian mine action across Yemen’s liberated areas, marked by operational continuity, expanding community engagement, and growing documentation of the human impact of explosive violence. By late December, Masam demining teams had located and cleared a cumulative total of 529,951 explosive devices since…

Project Masam clears 529,951 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have now located and cleared 529,951 explosive devices across Yemen’s liberated areas since operations began in July 2018, according to the latest weekly project report covering activities up to 26 December 2025. This cumulative clearance includes 7,002 anti-personnel mines, 148,741 anti-tank mines, 365,862 items of unexploded ordnance…

Yemen’s landmine crisis laid bare in new book

The Cultural Center at the Embassy of the Republic of Yemen in Egypt has hosted a book signing and discussion event for the book The Landmines of Happy Yemen: Witnessing War on the Front Lines of Hell by journalist Hussein Al-Badawi, published by Dar Al-Ain. The 333-page book documents the author’s experiences and reporting from…

Project Masam clears 529,116 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have now located and cleared 529,116 explosive devices across Yemen’s liberated areas since operations began in July 2018, according to the latest weekly project report covering activities up to 19 December 2025. This cumulative clearance includes 7,000 anti-personnel mines, 148,657 anti-tank mines, 365,117 items of unexploded ordnance…