Project Masam carried out the destruction and detonation of 20 landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Al-Hariqiyah area, in Dhubab district of Yemen’s Taiz governorate. In a statement, the leader of Masam Team 29 said that the demolition operation, carried out by Masam’s Special Task Team, included five anti-tank mines and 15 UXO. The damaged…
Project Masam has participated in the re-opening of the Al-Shaab School in Akkad village in the Jabal Habashi district on Sunday after completely securing it and clearing it of landmines. Project Masam began the clearance and securing operation of Al-Shaab School after a report was sent to the Project Operation Room about the dangerous situation there in the…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 1,027 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and explosive devices. In its statement, Project Masam confirmed the demining teams removed six anti-personnel mines, 203 anti-tank mines, 817 UXO and one improvised explosive device (IED) this week alone. Since the beginning of the month, management…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 391,613 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,071 anti-personnel mines, 137,400 anti-tank mines, 7,742 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 240,400 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 45,367,536sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
A truck driver has been injured by a Houthi landmine after it was swept away by torrential rains in Yemen’s Marib governorate, according to local sources. Sources in Harib district said that the landmine was triggered by the truck, causing severe injuries to its driver. The sources confirmed that a civilian, who has been named…
The Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) and Head of the United Nations Mission to support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) has visited Project Masam’s headquarters in Aden to discuss the landmine situation in Yemen. Project Masam’s deputy managing director Qassim Al-Dosarry and the director of operations in Aden and the Western Coast, Zauba Alrawi,…
Project Masam has destroyed 720 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and explosive devices in Wadi Dhahban, Ain district, Shabwah governorate. The detonation operation, which was carried out by Masam teams, in the presence of the head of the National Program for Mine Action, included 160 anti-tank mines, 31 anti-personnel mines, 513 unexploded shells in addition to…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams removed 880 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices. In its statement, Project Masam said that the project teams have removed 677 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and two explosive device including landmines since the beginning of the month. Management added that the project teams removed…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 390,586 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,065 anti-personnel mines, 137,197 anti-tank mines, 7,741 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 239,583 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 45,099,301sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
Leading human rights organisations in Yemen have paid tribute to Project Masam’s efforts to reduce the number of landmine victims in the country. Representatives of Yemen’s Mayyun Organization for Human Rights and Development (MHRD) and the Rasd Organisation for human rights and sustainable development visited Project Masam’s headquarters on March 7. Project Masam’s assistant managing…
