Civilians in the Harib district of the Marib Governorate have been indiscriminately affected by Houthi landmines, a local chief has claimed. Sheikh Al-Tuhaifi, a member of the local council in Harib, said that landmines have caused a great deal of damage caused to civilians, their property and livestock. Al-Tuhaifi told Project Masam that landmines have…
“I dedicated my life to contributing to demining operations in many countries worldwide,” said Osama Al-Gosaibi who chose this career. Having trained in the hands of British mine and explosives expert Guy Luxe during the Gulf War for 10 years, Al-Gosaibi is currently Project Masam’s Managing Director. Al-Gosaibi, who worked with the United Nations in…
Masam has concluded a training and refreshers course for 11 demining engineers at the project’s headquarters in Aden, Yemen’s temporary capital. Due to changes in landmine warfare, Masam has created special training modules to mitigate these emerging threats — particularly for teams operating in the most-at-risk areas. Deminers are trained both in the use of the best…
Project Masam has successfully removed and destroyed 1,601 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and various unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate. The destruction operation, in Bab al-Mandeb district, included 451 anti-tank mines, 112 UXO, 451 assorted fuses, 10 anti-personnel mines, five IEDs, and 617 assorted bullets. Masam Area Supervisor engineer Nayef Al-Kaldi said all…
Yemen is facing a grave crisis caused by mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by Houthi militias, Project Masam’s Managing Director has told a leading Egyptian newspaper. Ousama Algosaibi told Al-Dustour newspaper that Houthi militias have indiscriminately planted more than one million landmines of different shapes and sizes – and in the complete absence…
A Masam demining team has succesfully cleared and secured homes and farms in the Al-Aqd village in Al-Khokha district, in Hodeidah. Engineer Sami Saeed, stated that Team 26 were dispatched immediately after receiving a report from a civilian about the killing of 12 sheep in a mine explosion in the village of Al-Aqd. “We were…
Project Masam has announced its has located and destroyed 369,159 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,687 anti-personnel mines, 133,538 anti-tank mines, 7,553 improvised explosive devices and 222,381 unexploded ordnance neutralised over 39,652,109sqm 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…
Masam’s engineering teams, working in the Mocha district on Yemen’s western coast, have successfully secured hundreds of farms in Al-Ramah, the largest agricultural area in Taiz governorate. Engineer Hassan Al-Jubouri, supervisor of Masam’s engineering teams working in the West Coast and leader of Team 27, confirmed that the teams successfully secured 250 farms in the…
Yemeni Prime Minister, Dr. Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed, has highlighted how the internationally-prohibited Houthi landmines have become a threat to all walks of life and have claimed the lives of civilians, especially children and women. In a statement published by the Yemeni news agency Saba, the head of government indicated that the Houthi militia had deliberately…
Project Masam’s teams operating in Yemen’s western Hays Directorate have cleared thousands of landmines and dozens of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Othman Al-Ghouri, Leader of Masam Team 20 which operated in this area south of Al Hodeidah that is heavily contaminated by landmines, confirmed Masam demining teams have cleared between 1,500 and 2,000 landmines and…
