In recent months, civilians, local authorities and those involved in demining operations in Yemen have described the evolving landscape of the proliferation and indiscriminate use of landmines — both anti-personnel and anti-tank — as extremely worrisome. Whilst the Houthis’ use of landmines has been widely documented since at least 2015, the sheer number of landmines…
Project Masam has reached a new significant milestone after clearing its 4,500th anti-personnel landmine in Yemen since Masam started its operations in 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 explosive remnants of war…
Project Masam has located and safely destroyed 2,035 landmines and unexploded ordnance in Bab al-Mandab on Yemen’s western coast. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines across Yemen. On 26 January 2022, Project Masam’s Team Leader Special Tasks in the West Coast, Munther Qasim, and Dr. Zauba Alrawi, Project…
Giving an update about the situation in Yemen’s Usailan Directorate, the Deputy Director of the National Mine Action Program Muntather Al-Radfani warned about new, more widespread methods used to plant anti-personnel and anti-tank mines in the region. The country’s central energy-rich Shabwah Governorate has been a central frontline in the conflict between Houthi militias and…
Project Masam teams have located, cleared or destroyed 6,179 landmines and unexploded ordnance in the last week 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…
Project Masam has located and destroyed 4,761 landmines and unexploded ordnance in one week in Bab al-Mandab on Yemen’s western coast. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines across Yemen. Coastal communities in Yemen are direct victims of these explosive items. On 29 December 2021 and on 06 January 2022,…
Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi has condemned the manufacturing, use and planting of newly found anti-tank landmines he described as “bigger than ever seen before” in Yemen’s central energy-rich Shabwah Governorate. Shabwah province has been a central frontline in the conflict between Houthi militias and pro-government forces and have been littered with landmines and other remnants of…
One of Project Masam’s demining teams has discovered and cleared dozens of landmines in a recently liberated area in Yemen’s western Hays Directorate in less than 48 hours. In November this year, Yemen’s pro-government forces took full control of previously-held key areas in eastern Hays, in southern Hodeidah Governorate. The Hays District was initially liberated…
Ahmed Mohamed Saeed, who lives in Yemen’s Hays Directorate, was forcibly displaced by the conflict. Him and his family left everything behind – possessions and livelihoods. He was traveling in his truck when an anti-tank landmine exploded. Whilst his truck was destroyed, Saeed’s legs were badly injured – a sadly daily occurrence in this heavily-mined region.…
Project Masam has reached a significant milestone after clearing its 300,000th landmine and unexploded ordnance in 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. On 1 January 2022, Managing Director and Programme Manager…
