Project Masam is working on ensuring the demining of vital facilities to enable Yemenis to restore their normal social, economic, health, and cultural life. This includes water sources, which are a top priority for the project. This week, Project Masam’s team 11 has secured a water well on which the residents of the Mablaqa area,…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 730 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in September 2023. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams managed to remove five anti-personnel mines, 105 anti-tank mines, 617 UXO and three IEDs since the beginning of the…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 417,833 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,343 anti-personnel mines, 141,209 anti-tank mines, 262,384 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 7,897 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 50,132,331 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Everywhere you go in Yemen, you will find honey. Whether it is with your masoob breakfast (a delicious dish of banana, bread, dates, spices and of course Yemeni honey), in your lunchtime honeycomb bread desert of bint al sahn or areeka, for a late evening sweet treat, Yemen honey is undeniably interlinked to Yemeni life.…
Despite the huge number of indiscriminately planted landmines, Ousama Algosaibi, Project Masam’s Managing Director, said that statistics indicate the success of the project’s demining teams in clearing 417,103 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) between June 2018 and now. In a series of tweets published today on his personal account on the…
As part of his goal to improve the nature of the work of Project Masam’s demining teams in Yemen, Ousama Algosaibi, the project’s Managing Director, carried out an inspection visit to observe the progress of the field teams in Aden and across Yemen’s West Coast. Algosaibi was welcomed by the project’s Deputy Managing Director Gus…
Due to constant exposure to stressors, such as armed conflict, water scarcity, food insecurity, forced displacements, and high poverty rates, Yemenis currently face a mental health crisis. This crisis is further exacerbated by the current threat of landmines. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that at least 5.5 million people in Yemen require psychological intervention…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 3,360 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in September 2023. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams managed to remove 31 anti-personnel mines, 373 anti-tank mines, 2,946 UXO and 10 IEDs since the beginning of the…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 417,103 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,338 anti-personnel mines, 141,104 anti-tank mines, 261,767 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 7,894 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 50,132,331 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
The first recorded use of an explosive device was by the Song Dynasty to fend off invading Mongolians in 13th-century China. In 16th-century Italy, so-called “fourgasses” were used in battlefields – cannons were buried in the soil and detonated to spread soil, rocks and rubble on soldiers passing nearby. During the American Civil War, General…
