{"id":18578,"date":"2021-11-13T16:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T16:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/?p=18578"},"modified":"2021-11-13T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T16:07:09","slug":"project-masam-clears-1565-explosive-items-in-just-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/project-masam-clears-1565-explosive-items-in-just-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Masam clears 1,565 explosive items in just one week"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=”featured_image” img_size=”full” alignment=”right” css=”.vc_custom_1524156224953{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1636819625926{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #b5b5b5 !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}”]Project Masam has announced it has located, cleared and destroyed 1,565 dangerous explosive items between 06 November and 12 November 2021 in Yemen.<\/p>\n

Since Yemen\u2019s civil was began in 2014,\u00a0Houthi militias have planted land and seamines<\/a> across the war-torn country. Civilian communities in Yemen are direct victims<\/a> of these explosive items. 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

Masam teams are tasked to clear areas of immediate humanitarian priority: villages, roads, schools<\/a>, etc\u2026 in order to facilitate the safe movement of civilians<\/a> and humanitarian goods and services.<\/p>\n

The thousands of explosive items cleared last week include 541 anti-tank mines, four anti-personnel mines and 1,020 unexploded ordnance (UXO). These items were located across several Yemeni provinces: Aden, where 48 anti-tank and 137 UXO were cleared, Aldala’a, Al-Hudaydah, Lahj, Marib, Shabwah and Taiz. In Al-Jawf Governorate, 450 anti-tank mines were cleared.<\/p>\n

A total of 139,875sqm of liberated land was cleared in the last week alone.<\/p>\n

Since Masam first entered Yemen in mid-2018, its demining teams have cleared 287,645 explosive items across 27,795,722sqm of Yemeni land.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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