Masam’s engineering teams, working in the Mocha district on Yemen’s western coast, have successfully secured hundreds of farms in Al-Ramah, the largest agricultural area in Taiz governorate. Engineer Hassan Al-Jubouri, supervisor of Masam’s engineering teams working in the West Coast and leader of Team 27, confirmed that the teams successfully secured 250 farms in the…
Yemeni Prime Minister, Dr. Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed, has highlighted how the internationally-prohibited Houthi landmines have become a threat to all walks of life and have claimed the lives of civilians, especially children and women. In a statement published by the Yemeni news agency Saba, the head of government indicated that the Houthi militia had deliberately…
Project Masam’s teams operating in Yemen’s western Hays Directorate have cleared thousands of landmines and dozens of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Othman Al-Ghouri, Leader of Masam Team 20 which operated in this area south of Al Hodeidah that is heavily contaminated by landmines, confirmed Masam demining teams have cleared between 1,500 and 2,000 landmines and…
Project Masam has announced its has located and destroyed 368,351 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,680 anti-personnel mines, 133,094 anti-tank mines, 7,536 improvised explosive devices and 222,041 unexploded ordnance neutralised over 39,444,793sqm 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…
A hospital director in Yemen’s heavily-mined Shabwah province has described how landmines have hampered the healthcare sector. 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 war. Acting Director General of Bayhan Health Office and Director of Al-Dafaei General Hospital, Dr. Ahmed…
On 13 October, Project Masam welcomed Cornelius N Nagbe, an international law specialist, and member of the United Nations Security Council Panel of Eminent Experts on Yemen. Given the sheer scope and number of the violations occurring in Yemen in the past eight years since the conflict started, the UN Group of Experts said it…
The Director-General of Bayhan district in Yemen’s Shabwah province has described how his area has been “heavily damaged” by Houthi landmines. 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 war. Sheikh Muhammad Al-Fatimi, who welcomed Masam’s humanitarian landmine clearing efforts in…
Leader of Masam’s Team 16, Engineer Mubarak Salem, has confirmed the successful completion of surveying and clearing of landmines in the Mafraq Al-Saadi area in Bayhan province in Yemen’s Shabwah governorate. Salem explained that his team started work in the minefield at the beginning of September and was able to clear the area planted by…
“The war should be a state against a state, but here only civilians are suffering and bearing the burden.” These are the words of Ali Qassem Saleh, a devoted grandfather from Yemen’s south-western region of Al-Dhalea – also known as Dhale. Speaking from his village, Saleh told Project Masam how his daughter was severely injured…
A landmine explosion has claimed the lives of two children and wounded a third in Yemen’s central province of Marib. Two children were killed and a third was wounded in the Majzar district of Marib governorate as a result of the explosion of a landmine planted by the Houthi militia in the area. Local sources in…
