“People walk daily between life and death, as landmines have resulted in loss of the lives and the physical disabilities for many civilians.” These are the words Ibrahim Abdel Dayem, a resident in Dhami village, chose to use when he described living in Yemen’s Hays District. Plagued by landmines, strategic Hays links three governorates of…
Project Masam has announced its has located and destroyed 354,857 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,517 anti-personnel mines, 130,667 anti-tank mines, 7,451 improvised explosive devices and 211,222 unexploded ordnance neutralised over 37,488,147sqm 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…
They are between 28 and 47 years old, and all are attending classes with the same goal: to rid Yemen of landmines. As Project Masam continues its life-saving humanitarian mine clearance work in the conflict-afflicted country, it is also busy training the next generation of Yemeni deminers. These new mine clearance personnel recruits are on…
Project Masam deminers have warned of the rise of a little-known threat amid Yemen’s continuing war: landmine migration. A migrating landmine is a mine moved by nature from the original position it was laid in to another, without any human intervention – by water mostly, and by wind and sand. “Migration of mines is a real danger…
Project Masam teams have located, cleared or destroyed 3,432 landmines and unexploded ordnance in the last month 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 were clearing…
