Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 875 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), bringing the total cleared since the beginning of the month to 3,989. Masam Operations said in a statement that the project teams removed 686 UXOs and 13 IEDs along with 11 banned…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 400,070 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,162 anti-personnel mines, 139,232 anti-tank mines, 7,801 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 246,875 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 46,439,132sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
Project Masam has reached a significant milestone after clearing its 400,000th landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen. Operating since mid-2018, Project 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. Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi announced…
Ousama Algosaibi, the Managing Director of Project Masam, has recently inspected the work progress of the project in Yemen’s Marib Governorate. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic areas have been left cluttered with anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines, along with unexploded explosive remnants of war (ERW). Marib is one…
Project Masam has destroyed and detonated 1,470 landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s southern Abyan governorate. The Operations Room announced in a statement that the destruction operation was carried out by the Special Task Force today (25 May 2023). Items destroyed included seven anti-tank mines, three banned anti-personnel landmines, 416 shells, five rockets and…
Project Masam’s Team 17 has announced it has cleared and secured the Wadi Al-Awda farm in Mokha district of Yemen’s Taiz governorate. Taiz governorate is one of Yemen’s most landmine-contaminated regions after Houthi militias extensively and indiscriminately planted mines. In a statement, the leader of Team 17 said that his team had received a report…
Four children were injured in a landmine explosion in a store in Mokha district of Yemen’s Taiz governorate. In a statement, the leader of Project Masam’s Team 21 said that the children were exposed to a landmine explosion in a scrap shop in Mokha, which resulted in moderate and serious injuries. He added that one…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 1,085 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), bringing the total cleared since the beginning of the month to 3,114. Masam Operations said in a statement that the project teams removed 901 UXOs and five IEDs along with 20 banned…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 399,195 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,151 anti-personnel mines, 139,067 anti-tank mines, 7,788 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 246,189 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 46,219,580sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
The leader of Project Masam Team 12 has confirmed that his team secured 14 minefields during the past year in several villages and populated areas in the Harib district, west of Yemen’s Marib governorate. The minefields his team secured are located in al-Hashfa, al-Haysha, and Um Risha areas among many others, he said, adding that…
