Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 396,081 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,114 anti-personnel mines, 138,558 anti-tank mines, 7,773 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 243,636 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 45,367,536sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 395,245 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,113 anti-personnel mines, 138,341 anti-tank mines, 7,769 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 243,022 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 45,367,536sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 602 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), bringing the total cleared since the beginning of the month to 2,223. Masam Operations said in a statement that the project teams removed 550 UXOs and 53 IEDs along with 256 anti-tank…
Three civilians, including a child, were killed on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, when a landmine planted by the Houthi militia exploded in the south of Al-Hodeidah Governorate in the west of Yemen. A human rights source said that three people, including a child, were killed by a mine planted on a side…
A child has been killed in a landmine accident in Yemen’s centre, sources claim. Local sources said that a child, identified as Ahmed Abdu-lsalam Al-Sahraa,13, was killed when he stepped on a Houthi landmines on Monday as he was passing by a side road in the village of Al-Hamraa in the Al-Sawma’ah district in Al-Bayda…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 816 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), bringing the total cleared since the beginning of the month to 1,598. In its statement, Project Masam confirmed the demining teams removed 550 UXO and 53 IEDs along with 256 anti-tank mines…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 394,620 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,093 anti-personnel mines, 138,161 anti-tank mines, 7,764 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 242,602 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 45,367,536sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
While Radwa Muthana Nagi Al-Gini was playing next to her house in the Al-Shakhb neighbourhood in the Qa’atabah District of the governorate of Dhalea, she stumbled on a Houthi landmine. Fortunately, the eight-year old had learned a lot about the different types of landmines found in Yemen, and the importance of not touching them…
A child has been killed and another three injured in the explosion of a camouflaged landmine in Yemen’s west coast. Local sources and human rights organisations claimed that the children, aged between four and 15 triggered a camouflaged landmine in a mountainous area south of the district of At Tuhayta, in the south of Al…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 782 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). In its statement, Project Masam confirmed the demining teams removed 165 anti-tank mines, 612 UXO and five IEDs this week alone. The total area cleared since the beginning of the project in…
