{"id":18513,"date":"2021-10-03T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/?p=18513"},"modified":"2021-12-06T10:48:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T10:48:55","slug":"18513-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/18513-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Masam clears 278,601 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1633257085497{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1638787733754{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #b5b5b5 !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}&#8221;]Project Masam has announced its has located and destroyed 278,601 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Last week (25 September \u2013 01 October 2021) alone, Project Masam deminers removed 1,541 deadly items, including 1,541 anti-tank mines, 526 UXO, six IEDs and five anti-personnel mines, effectively clearing 95,760sqm of land, which has now been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/returning-displaced-civilians-to-their-homes-in-mocha-taiz-governorate\/\">returned to civilians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than five million people are estimated to have been forced to flee their homes since the beginning of the conflict in Yemen \u2013 many of them displaced by the presence of landmines on their land.<\/p>\n<p>Masam teams are tasked to clear areas of immediate humanitarian priority: villages, roads, schools, etc\u2026 in order to facilitate the safe movement of civilians and humanitarian goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>For insights into our humanitarian mine clearance work, project updates and to hear from our demining experts, follows on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Masam_ENG\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/project-masam\">LinkedIn<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1633257085497{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1638787733754{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #b5b5b5 !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}&#8221;]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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[151,106,149,201,137,103,100,97,130,131,99,124,140,143,98,110,116,123,105,101,109,119,111,108],"class_list":["post-18513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-personnel-landmines","tag-civilians","tag-houthi-landmines","tag-houthi-militias","tag-houthi-recruitment-of-children","tag-houthis","tag-human-rights","tag-humanitarian","tag-idps-yemen","tag-internally-displaced-yemen","tag-landmines","tag-landmines-in-yemen","tag-marib-battle","tag-marib-landmines","tag-mine-action","tag-mine-clearance","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-total-mines-cleared","tag-uxo","tag-yemen","tag-yemen-crisis","tag-yemen-executive-mine-action-centre","tag-yemen-news","tag-yemen-war","category-18","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18626,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513\/revisions\/18626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}