Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 448,313 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,531 anti-personnel mines, 144,555 anti-tank mines, 289,169 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,058 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 57,304,509 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Project Masam demining teams have cleared areas of landmines for the third time after Houthi militias re-planted explosive devices – even in liberated areas, the head of the project has warned. Since the beginning of the current conflict in 2015, Houthi militias have planted landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) extensively and indiscriminately across large…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 2,810 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in June 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams removed 1,556 landmines and UXO last week, including 52 anti-tank mines, 1,503 UXO and one IED, bringing the total…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 447,668 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,537 anti-personnel mines, 144,509 anti-tank mines, 288,576 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,052 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 57,286,379 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 22 has today (14 June 2024) launched an awareness campaign regarding the danger of explosive devices and remnants of war in strategic areas of Yemen’s third largest city Taiz, which has been under siege by the Houthi militias since April 2015. The siege, which opposes the Houthis to Yemeni forces, has…
Project Masam has announced today it has successfully demolished 772 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s southern Bab al-Mandab area. The mine clearance operation was carried out by Project Masam’s demining Team 19, and included 13 anti-tank mines, 28 miscellaneous shells, two anti-personnel mines, 129 assorted fuses, 596 rounds, three…
In its latest session, the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), has praised the efforts of Project Masam in Yemen. The Ministerial Council of the GCC held its 161th session on Sunday 9 June 2024, in Doha, Qatar, under the chairmanship of His Excellency Sheikh…
Project Masam’s deminers have removed demolished anti-tank mines on the coast of the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Al-Ardi area of Dhubab district, west of Yemen’s Taiz governorate. The leader of demining Team 19, Engineer Khaled Daoud, stated that at least four mines were discovered during an operation to secure the coast of the strategic…
Project Masam has announced today it has successfully demolished 602 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s southern Abyan region. The bulk destruction operation was carried out on 9 June by Project Masam’s Special Task Team 1 in the Dofas area of Abyan governorate, and included two anti-personnel mines, three anti-tank…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 1,254 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in June 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams removed 1,254 landmines and UXO last week, including one anti-personnel landmines, 18 anti-tank mines, 1,232 UXO and three IEDs.…
