Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 1,579 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in October 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the demining teams removed 1,579 landmines and UXO last week, including five anti-personnel landmines, 126 anti-tank mines, 1,442 UXO and six…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 463,673 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,606 anti-personnel mines, 145,306 anti-tank mines, 305,185 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,155 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 60,508,926 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Project Masam’s demining Team 9 has started clearing the sides of the main road connecting the Usaylan district to Ataq, the capital of the south-central Shabwah governorate – a battleground of Yemen’s current war. Yemen’s limited network of main highways and roads has been weaponised as a way to strip warring parties of access to…
Project Masam’s deminers have destroyed 1,023 landmines, and unexploded ordnance in the coastal Bab al-Mandab area of Dhubab District, in Yemen’s Taiz region. The demolition operation, carried out by the Project Masam’s Special Task Team, involved the demolition of 22 anti-personnel landmines, 247 anti-tank mines, 52 unexploded shells, 320 assorted fuses, four Katyusha rockets, 490…
Landmines spare no one, and this was tragically evident in the story of Tariq Abdullah Al-Awadi, a paramedic with the Masam Landmine Clearance project -Yemen. The humanitarian landmine clearance project currently has 42 medics deployed in Yemen: 32 national manual mine clearance (MMC) team medics, two national doctors — medical co-ordinators headquartered in Marib and in…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 5,962 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in September 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams removed 1,384 landmines and UXO last week, including two anti-personnel landmines, six anti-tank mines, and 1,375 UXO during the…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 463,673 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,601 anti-personnel mines, 145,180 anti-tank mines, 303,743 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,149 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 60,268,351 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Julien Harneis, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen has met with Project Masam management at the project’s headquarters in Aden, Yemen’s de-factor capital, to discuss the future of demining operations in the country, along with the challenges and difficulties faced by demining teams. Harneis, accompanied by Charles Frisby, the Mine Action Advisor…
Project Masam’s deminers have destroyed 1,097 landmines, and unexploded ordnance in the Wadi Dufs area of Abyan Governorate, east of Aden, Yemen’s de facto capital. The demolition operation, carried out by the Project Masam’s Special Task Team, involved the demolition of six anti-tank mines, 364 unexploded shells, 441 assorted fuses, two short-range anti-tank weapon systems…
In light of the significant humanitarian challenges facing Yemen, Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) programmes are essential for protecting lives and preventing civilian casualties. As the prevalence of landmines remains high across several regions across the war-torn country, the Masam Landmine Clearance Project – Yemen is making dedicated efforts to raise awareness among the most…
