Project Masam has located and destroyed 4,761 landmines and unexploded ordnance in one week in Bab al-Mandab on Yemen’s western coast. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines across Yemen. Coastal communities in Yemen are direct victims of these explosive items. On 29 December 2021 and on 06 January 2022,…
Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi has condemned the manufacturing, use and planting of newly found anti-tank landmines he described as “bigger than ever seen before” in Yemen’s central energy-rich Shabwah Governorate. 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…
One of Project Masam’s demining teams has discovered and cleared dozens of landmines in a recently liberated area in Yemen’s western Hays Directorate in less than 48 hours. In November this year, Yemen’s pro-government forces took full control of previously-held key areas in eastern Hays, in southern Hodeidah Governorate. The Hays District was initially liberated…
Ahmed Mohamed Saeed, who lives in Yemen’s Hays Directorate, was forcibly displaced by the conflict. Him and his family left everything behind – possessions and livelihoods. He was traveling in his truck when an anti-tank landmine exploded. Whilst his truck was destroyed, Saeed’s legs were badly injured – a sadly daily occurrence in this heavily-mined region.…
Project Masam has reached a significant milestone after clearing its 300,000th landmine and unexploded ordnance in Yemen. Operating since mid-2018, Masam currently has 32 teams working in liberated areas across the country and conducts humanitarian clearance in accordance with priorities set by the Yemeni National Authority. On 1 January 2022, Managing Director and Programme Manager…
Abd Elbaset Abd El Jalil was badly injured when a landmine exploded as he drove his car. “I was surprised as I was driving on my way safely, I don’t know where the mine came from,” El Jalil said. “The mine split my car in two, the passenger who was next to me died and…
The humanitarian landmine clearance project Masam has reached a significant milestone, having cleared 100,000 anti-tank landmines in Yemen since the start of the project in 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 of…
Civilians displaced by the conflict in western Yemen are returning home after liberation to find their houses and villages mined, Project Masam has warned. In November this year, Yemen’s pro-government forces took full control of previously-held key areas in eastern Hays, in southern Hodeidah Governorate. The Hays District was initially liberated in 2018 but Hodeidah…
A teenager has been killed by an anti-personnel landmines in western Yemen as Project Masam’s demining experts are called in for an emergency survey of the area following the incident. The area, situated south of the strategic port city of Hodeidah, is one of the most heavily mined in Yemen. Houthi militias laid landmines as they retreated…
As the children huddle on the rough ground and whisper to each other, a mine clearance expert starts distributing flyers with photos of deadly explosives. We are in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate and Masam’s Project Manager and Technical Advisor Loedie Voges is about to start a Mine Risk Education (MRE) and awareness session for the village’s schoolchildren in…
