Seven civilians, including two children, were killed and injured, after landmines planted by the Houthi militia exploded in three provinces. The Yemeni Landmine Observatory said that the two civilians, Yahya Mutlaq Naas and Yahya Muhammad Ghafisa were killed while riding their motorcycle after an anti-personnel landmine detonated in the Anbara area of Al-Matoun District, in…
Project Masam has announced its has located and destroyed 356,758 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,538 anti-personnel mines, 131,459 anti-tank mines, 7,462 improvised explosive devices and 212,299 unexploded ordnance neutralised over 38,034,702sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic areas have been…
Project Masam teams have located, cleared or destroyed 2,943 landmines and unexploded ordnance in the last week across 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. Teams operating out of Masam’s Marib headquarters…
Project Masam has reached a significant milestone after clearing its 5,000th anti-personnel landmine 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 20 May 2022, Managing Director and Programme Manager Ousama Algosaibi…
Yemeni of Information Muammar Al-Eryani has called on the international community, the United Nations and UN Special Envoy to put pressure on the Houthi militia to halt manufacturing and laying landmines in Yemen. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines – extensively, intentionally and indiscriminately – across the…
Project Masam teams have located, cleared or destroyed 1,201 landmines and unexploded ordnance in the last week across 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. Teams operating out of Masam’s Marib headquarters…
Project Masam is providing specialised training to Yemeni demining teams, as they continue to encounter newly-developed booby-trapped mines planted by parties opposing the pro-government forces, including Houthi militias. Due to the advances in their manufacturing, and technical and technological aspects, locally-produced booby-trapped mines encountered in the last few months across Yemen make mine clearance even more…
Regardless of the rainy season and security issues linked to tribal clashes in Yemen’s West Coast region, Project Masam clearance teams are continuing to undertake mine clearance operations to the best of their ability by adapting to new threats. The weather in Yemen varies on geography. Yemen’s western highlands have two distinct rainy seasons -…
Like many farmers living in the resource-rich eastern Shabwah governorate, Abdullah Abdul Qadir was left fearing a landmine might end his life and that of his livestock. In 2015, the region and its Bayhan Directorate became a battleground between the Houthis and Pro-Yemeni government forces. As they retreated, the Houthis left behind landmines, unexploded ordnance and…
There are two types of mine clearance: humanitarian and military. What’s the difference between these, and how does Project Masam deal with the threat of landmines in Yemen? We asked our Director of Special Operations, Chris Clark. “There is a race to clear mines quicker than they are being laid, but the balance of that is that…
