Clearance operations continue in Yemen’s Jabal Habashi province

A Project Masam supervisor has confirmed that operations are continuing in the Jabal Habashi Directorate of Yemen’s Taiz Governorate. Colonel Aref Al Qahtani, in charge of Project Masam’s demining teams in Taiz Governorate, explained that Project Masam’s Team 22 was sent to Al-Shaab School in Akkad village after Jabal Habashi Directorate and the Education Department…

Masam clears 372,652 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 372,652 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,720 anti-personnel mines, 134,412 anti-tank mines, 7,577 improvised explosive devices and 224,943 unexploded ordnance neutralised over 40,736,537sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic areas have been left littered with Houthi anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines, along with unexploded remnants…

In Yemen, children pay the price of landmines

Eman is a young Yemeni girl who is no longer able to play with her friends in the streets of her village in the district of Hays, south of Yemen’s western Al Hudaydah Governorate. The little girl lost her right hand as a result of the explosion of a landmine planted by the Houthi militia…

Removing landmines from under the ruins of Al-Shaab School was a dangerous task successfully carried out by Masam

A Project Masam supervisor has described how removing landmines from a Yemeni school has been successfully carried out despite difficult circumstances. Colonel Aref Al Qahtani, in charge of Project Masam’s demining teams in Taiz Governorate, explained that Team 22 discovered live ammunition – including 122 mm artillery shells – in a school in the Jabal…