Project Masam has announced its has located and destroyed 368,351 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,680 anti-personnel mines, 133,094 anti-tank mines, 7,536 improvised explosive devices and 222,041 unexploded ordnance neutralised over 39,444,793sqm 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…
A hospital director in Yemen’s heavily-mined Shabwah province has described how landmines have hampered the healthcare sector. Shabwah province has been a central frontline in the conflict between Houthi militias and pro-government forces and have been littered with landmines and other remnants of war. Acting Director General of Bayhan Health Office and Director of Al-Dafaei General Hospital, Dr. Ahmed…
On 13 October, Project Masam welcomed Cornelius N Nagbe, an international law specialist, and member of the United Nations Security Council Panel of Eminent Experts on Yemen. Given the sheer scope and number of the violations occurring in Yemen in the past eight years since the conflict started, the UN Group of Experts said it…
The Director-General of Bayhan district in Yemen’s Shabwah province has described how his area has been “heavily damaged” by Houthi landmines. Shabwah province has been a central frontline in the conflict between Houthi militias and pro-government forces and have been littered with landmines and other remnants of war. Sheikh Muhammad Al-Fatimi, who welcomed Masam’s humanitarian landmine clearing efforts in…
Leader of Masam’s Team 16, Engineer Mubarak Salem, has confirmed the successful completion of surveying and clearing of landmines in the Mafraq Al-Saadi area in Bayhan province in Yemen’s Shabwah governorate. Salem explained that his team started work in the minefield at the beginning of September and was able to clear the area planted by…
“The war should be a state against a state, but here only civilians are suffering and bearing the burden.” These are the words of Ali Qassem Saleh, a devoted grandfather from Yemen’s south-western region of Al-Dhalea – also known as Dhale. Speaking from his village, Saleh told Project Masam how his daughter was severely injured…
A landmine explosion has claimed the lives of two children and wounded a third in Yemen’s central province of Marib. Two children were killed and a third was wounded in the Majzar district of Marib governorate as a result of the explosion of a landmine planted by the Houthi militia in the area. Local sources in…
Team Leader Sami Said said his demining team was called after a landmine was detonated by three civilians in Hays Directorate. “A child, Ali Zuhair, died and while two other children, Bakir Zuhair and Ali Akbar, were injured,” the leader of Team 26 said. According to the engineer, the landmine was planted by the Houthi…
Project Masam announced that it successfully removed 360,573 landmines, improvised explosive devices and various unexploded ordnance in Yemeni liberated areas, in accordance with the latest statistics published early this month. The project aims to clear the Yemeni territory of landmines, by addressing the direct threats to the civilians due to exposure to the dangers caused…
A number of Arab studies and research centers in Cairo have recently honoured Project Masam with awards for its humanitarian role in saving lives of millions of Yemenis with its landmine clearance work in Yemen. Held in the Egyptian capital, the awards ceremony was conducted by Sherif Abdel Hamid, head of the Gulf Center for…
