{"id":3323,"date":"2022-03-22T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/v2\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:44:00","slug":"efforts-to-clear-booby-trapped-landmines-continue-in-shabwah-province-says-yemac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/efforts-to-clear-booby-trapped-landmines-continue-in-shabwah-province-says-yemac\/","title":{"rendered":"Efforts to clear booby-trapped landmines continue in Shabwah Province, says YEMAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Giving an update about the situation in Yemen\u2019s Ataq Directorate in Shabwah Governorate, the Deputy Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action (YEMAC) in Marib, Muntather Al-Radfani discussed YEMAC and Masam\u2019s efforts to clear booby-trapped landmines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yemen\u2019s central energy-rich Shabwah province has been a\u00a0central frontline in the conflict<\/a>\u00a0between Houthi militias and pro-government forces and has been\u00a0littered with landmines<\/a>\u00a0and other remnants of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe National Demining Program, in partnership with the Saudi project Masam, is carrying out two operations to destroy a number of mines and other war remnants, such as projectiles, detonators and the like,\u201d Al-Radfani said about the operation taking place in the Marra area of Ataq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussing the\u00a0clearance of booby-trapped mines<\/a>, the Deputy Director said: \u201cThe addition of fuzes and other remnants [such as grenades] to landmines is considered to create even more effective landmines because they explode and lead to the detonation of the landmine, making it even more severe. Therefore, the engineering teams of Project Masam cleared, de-assembled and destroyed them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Due to the advances in their manufacturing, and technical and technological aspects, locally-produced booby-trapped mines<\/a> encountered in the last few months across Yemen make mine clearance even more dangerous, as their anti-handling devices and booby-traps are designed to explode if removed by any unsuspecting deminer or civilian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The landmines have had a \u201cvery negative impact on people\u2019s lives\u201d \u2013 on their daily movements, their concerns, pastures, water sources and the various roads that served them, Al-Radfani explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Project Masam continues to provide specialised training<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giving an update about the situation in Yemen\u2019s Ataq Directorate in Shabwah Governorate, the Deputy Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action (YEMAC) in Marib, Muntather Al-Radfani discussed YEMAC and Masam\u2019s efforts to clear booby-trapped landmines. Yemen\u2019s central energy-rich Shabwah province has been a\u00a0central frontline in the conflict\u00a0between Houthi militias and pro-government forces and has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3327,"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":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-18","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","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=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}