Translators and interpreters have a crucial role to play in the context of humanitarian demining. With the support of these linguistic experts with in-depth mine action knowledge, we are able to communicate with our local Yemeni deminers, local government and authorities, and educate the local population about the risks of landmines and other explosive threats. Last week, we…
Project Masam has announced its has located and destroyed 278,601 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 4,118 anti-personnel mines, 91,715 anti-tank mines, 6,099 improvised explosive devices and 176,669 unexploded ordnance neutralised over 26,942,387sqm of land since mid-2018. Last week (25 September – 01 October 2021) alone, Project Masam deminers removed 1,541 deadly items,…
Project Masam continues to clear areas of strategic humanitarian importance such as airports and roads. Colonel Mubarak Salem Ali Siod, Commander of the Air Police Battalion at Ataq Airport in Shabwah Governorate requested immediate help from Project Masam to clear Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and landmines left behind at Ataq Airport…
Watch Jalal Amer, Leader of Team 24, discuss how two Masam Teams discovered 16 German-made PPM-2 anti-personnel landmines in a minefield in the Jabal Sheikh Saeed area, of the strategic Bab Al-Mandab Strait. 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…
More than five million people are estimated to have been forced to flee their homes since the beginning of the conflict in Yemen – many of them displaced by the presence of landmines on their land. We caught up with Abdullah Shafiel, Leader of Team 21, whose team has been clearing landmines in the Hassi…
On 22 August, Project Masam welcomed Marie-Louise Tougas, an International Human Rights Law expert 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 seven years since the conflict started, the UN Group of Experts said it…
Despite huge progress in demining made in recent years in Yemen, there is still a lot of work to be done if landmines are to no longer represent a risk to civilians’ health, safety and lives, the Undersecretary for Technical Affairs in Al Jawf Governorate has said. Since 2015, Yemen’s Houthi militia have and are still routinely employing…
So far since mid-2018, Project Masam has cleared 6,081 Improvised Explosive Devices, known as IEDs across Yemen. IEDs can come in many forms, with the most sophisticated ones assembled to cause huge damage and fatalities. Unfortunately, there has been a rise in IED ‘attacks’ across Yemen, due to Houthi militias’ growing use of homemade IEDs,…
As Swedish diplomat Hans Grundberg was appointed as the new UN Special Envoy for Yemen on 6 August, effectively supporting the international and regional efforts on achieving the political settlement in Yemen, Project Masam continues to witness a trail of landmines planted by the Houthi militias as they retreat from areas in Al-Jawf province. Fighting…
On 27 May 2021, Masam was called after a mine laid by Houthi militias exploded on a boat in the Jabal Sheikh Saeed area of the strategic Bab Al-Mandab Strait. 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…
