Three civilians have been killed and injured in the explosions of Houthi landmines in the governorates of Al-Jawf, north-east of Yemen, and Lahij, in the south the same day. Local sources in the governorate of Al-Jawf reported that Yahia Derham al-Sha’ery was injured on Sunday January 1 in the explosion of a landmine left behind…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that the project teams have removed 969 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices last week bringing the total number of mines and explosive items removed since the beginning of the month to 4,404. In its statement, Project Masam said that the project teams have removed 2,968 unexploded ordnance and…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 379,605 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,979 anti-personnel mines, 135,525 anti-tank mines, 7,670 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 230,431 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 42,644,021sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
Yemeni student Moubeen Abu Aser has said that Project Masam’s landmine clearance in the governorate of Marib was a psychological achievement. Discussing Masam’s mine action efforts, the student said these achievements had come with great human sacrifices in his heavily contaminated Marib governorate. Had it not been for Masam’s work in this governorate, life would…
Like many fishermen in Bab Al-Mandab, Salim Mohammad Salem, a Dhubab resident, was left unable to fish and provide for this family for fear landmines could threaten his life and his boat. Speaking to Project Masam, Salim explained how difficult the situation had become. Fishermen’s boats broke down and remained trapped on mined beaches and…
Mokhtar Mohamed Ali Farag is a Yemeni civilian living in Dhubab in the district of Yemen’s Bab al-Mandab. When Project Masam spoke to Mokhtar, the young man said he was relieved after the project succeeded in clearing landmines in both land and sea in several Yemeni regions. Mokhtar said both he and his fellow fishermen…
Project Masam’s pavilion in the second Marib Book Fair attracted a large number of visitors, who spent time perusing photos, publications and brochures aiming at educating people about the dangers of landmines and ways to prevent accidents. Masam’s displayed photos of the civilians who fell victim to landmines in addition to statistics reflecting the project’s…
Project Masam has destroyed and detonated 1,118 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices in the Bab al-Mandab district in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz. In a statement, Engineer Adib Rajab, the deputy leader of the Masam Special Task Team in Aden and the West Coast Sector, said that the destruction process which was carried out…
Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi has said that the problem of landmines in Yemen may be an old one as landmines that have been planted in Yemen during the six past wars were traditional landmines, but today Yemen is facing a new type of anti-tank and anti-personnel landmines. During a phone interview with the…
Project Masam’s Team 26 has announced the dismantling of an anti-tank minefield in the village of Hillah in the district of Hays, south of Yemen’s al-Hudeidah governorate. Engineer Sami Said said that his team removed 26 anti-tank landmines from the village of al-Hillah after receiving a report from a Yemeni civilian stating that there was…
