Project Masam clears 479,794 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

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Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 479,794 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas.

These include 6,707 anti-personnel mines, 145,981 anti-tank mines, 318,919 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,188 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) cleared over 64,411,092 square metres 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 left littered with Houthi anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines, along with unexploded remnants of war.

Last week (18 January 2025 – 24 January 2025) alone, Project Masam deminers removed. 840 deadly items, including 38 anti-tank mines, 800 UXO, and two IEDs, according to Project Masam Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi. The teams cleared 272,556 square metres during the same period.

Up to 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.

Masam teams are tasked to clear areas of immediate humanitarian priority: villages, roads, schools, etc… in order to facilitate the safe movement of civilians and humanitarian goods and services.

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