The director of the Sabir district in The Taiz governorate has claimed his region has been badly affected by landmines. Mohamed al-Kadhi said: “Our region has suffered a lot from landmines which have been randomly planted to cause the death and injury of a large number of children and women in tragic accidents.” Al-Kadhi pointed…
First Undersecretary of Taiz Governorate, Dr. Abdul-Qawi Al-Mikhlafi, has said that Taiz is a “disaster-hit” area due to Houthi landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) heavily planted in civilian areas. In a statement, Al-Mikhlafi, said that the mines and IEDs planted by the Houthi militia in Taiz caused the death and injuries of thousands of…
On 20 February, Project Masam is remembering five colleagues killed in the line of duty four years ago. Project Masam mourns the loss of the team of five demining specialists, who lost their lives while attempting to bring safety and security to the Yemeni people on 20 February 2019 in the central province of Marib.…
The director of the Yemeni Observation and Documentation Centre for Mines and Unexploded Ordnance in Taiz has said that landmine clearance has largely contributed to bringing life back to normal in several villages and areas affected by landmines. In a statement, Dr. Fadl Saleh Al-Bukhari, said that the centre is witnessing the positive role played…
Project Masam has destroyed and detonated 686 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices in the Bab al-Mandab district in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz. In a statement, Engineer Yasser Salem Al-Mazloumi, deputy leader of the task force in Aden and the West Coast Sector, said that the destruction operation carried out by Masam on January…
Yemen is close to becoming the most landmine contaminated country since World War II, according to Somaya Al-Mahmoud, Director of Public Relations and Media Affairs Officer of Project Masam, said in an interview with Al-Qahera News. Masam is a humanitarian project launched under the umbrella of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief)…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 382,094 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,999 anti-personnel mines, 135,763 anti-tank mines, 7,673 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 232,659 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 43,191,057sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
A lawyer has claimed that up to 2,000 civilians have been killed by landmines in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate since 2015. Omar al-Hamiri, lawyer and human rights activist, said that since 2018, Project Masam has cleared 5,000 internationally-banned anti-personnel landmines. Al-Hamiri said, “Taiz has suffered from different crimes committed by the Houthi militia, yet the random…
Three civilians from a same family have been injured in the explosion of a landmine on a desert road in Al-Jawf Governorate, northern Yemen. A local source in Al-Jawf Governorate told Project Masam’s press office that a Houthi landmine detonated under the car of civilian Sam Saleh Ali al-Dabaa, who was travelling with his brothers…
The director of Al-Shaab School in the village of Akkad, Ahmed Muhammad Al-Barkani, has said that Project Masam’s teams have enabled the educational process in the school to get back on track, after completely securing it from landmines. Al-Barkani said that the demining operations which Masam carried out in Al-Shaab School enabled the school staff…
