Yahya Ali Salem is a Yemeni farmer. He used to grow grains, melons, sesame and fodder for livestock. Then he was displaced by the conflict. When his area was liberated, he was finally able to return home, to his land. What he found was an area littered with landmines. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government…
Giving an update about the situation in Yemen’s Ataq Directorate in Shabwah Governorate, the Deputy Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action (YEMAC) in Marib, Muntather Al-Radfani discussed YEMAC and Masam’s efforts to clear booby-trapped landmines. Yemen’s central energy-rich Shabwah province has been a central frontline in the conflict between Houthi militias and pro-government forces…
The Deputy Director of the Yemeni Executive Mine Action Centre (YEMAC) has warned that the scale and density of landmine planting is a fast-growing issue in Yemen, where demining teams are stretched thin and struggling to keep up with the workload. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines across the…
In the midst of the continued threat from landmines in liberated areas of Yemen, Project Masam is still finding moments of triumph and celebration. The sheer number of landmines planted in recent months has led experts to warn that the armed group’s new tactics could hamper mine eradication in Yemen, as well as pose an…
One of Project Masam’s teams has removed 360 anti-tank mines in less than 24 hours after civilians reported a landmine explosion accident in the strategic northern governorate of Marib. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines across the war-torn country. Whilst the Houthis’ use of landmines has been widely…
Project Masam is providing specialised training to Yemeni demining teams, as they continue to encounter newly-developed booby-trapped mines planted by parties opposing the pro-government forces, including Houthi militias. Due to the advances in their manufacturing, and technical and technological aspects, locally-produced booby-trapped mines encountered in the last few months across Yemen make mine clearance even more…
This week, we met with Ahmed Kurda, the Secretary General of the Local Council in Usailan Directorate in Shabwah Governorate – one of the most landmine contaminated area of Yemen after Masam teams cleared thousands of landmines in just seven days. The country’s central energy-rich Shabwah Governorate has been a central frontline in the conflict between Houthi militias…
The Yemeni Prime Minister Dr. Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed has expressed his gratitude towards humanitarian mine clearance Project Masam for its role in removing landmines and other explosive threats in Yemen. 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…
As demining teams continue to encounter newly-developed booby-trapped mines planted by parties opposing the pro-government forces, including Houthi militias, there is now an urgency for mine action professionals to think about how best to reduce and eliminate new victims of landmines in Yemen. Due to the advances in their manufacturing, and technical and technological aspects, locally-produced…
In recent months, civilians, local authorities and those involved in demining operations in Yemen have described the evolving landscape of the proliferation and indiscriminate use of landmines — both anti-personnel and anti-tank — as extremely worrisome. Whilst the Houthis’ use of landmines has been widely documented since at least 2015, the sheer number of landmines…
