Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 466,711 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,610 anti-personnel mines, 145,383 anti-tank mines, 306,560 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,158 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 60,966,325 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Project Masam’s deminers have destroyed 1,661 landmines, and unexploded ordnance in the Wadi Dufs area of Zinjibar in Abyan Governorate, east of Aden, Yemen’s de facto capital. Deminer Yasar Salem, a member of Project Masam’s Special Task Team in the Aden sector, confirmed his team successfully demolished 441 shells and unexploded ordnance (UXO), 1,214 armour-piercing…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have cleared 2,209 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in October 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the teams cleared 630 landmines and UXO last week, including three anti-personnel landmines, 28 anti-tank mines, 598 UXO and one IED…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 465,882 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,609 anti-personnel mines, 145,334 anti-tank mines, 305,783 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,156 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 60,781,715 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
The Masam Landmine Clearance Project – Yemen has carried out a bulk demolition of a large quantity of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) in the Al-Rayyan area of Khabb wa ash Sha’af District in Al-Jawf governorate, northeast of Yemen. Since April 2020, much of A-Jawf, a prominent hotbed of Houthi landmine contamination, has been under…
Project Masam has announced that its demining teams have removed 1,579 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so far in October 2024. Project Masam’s Operations Room said in a statement that the demining teams removed 1,579 landmines and UXO last week, including five anti-personnel landmines, 126 anti-tank mines, 1,442 UXO and six…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 463,673 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,606 anti-personnel mines, 145,306 anti-tank mines, 305,185 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 8,155 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised over 60,508,926 square metres of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in…
Project Masam’s demining Team 9 has started clearing the sides of the main road connecting the Usaylan district to Ataq, the capital of the south-central Shabwah governorate – a battleground of Yemen’s current war. Yemen’s limited network of main highways and roads has been weaponised as a way to strip warring parties of access to…
Project Masam’s deminers have destroyed 1,023 landmines, and unexploded ordnance in the coastal Bab al-Mandab area of Dhubab District, in Yemen’s Taiz region. The demolition operation, carried out by the Project Masam’s Special Task Team, involved the demolition of 22 anti-personnel landmines, 247 anti-tank mines, 52 unexploded shells, 320 assorted fuses, four Katyusha rockets, 490…
Landmines spare no one, and this was tragically evident in the story of Tariq Abdullah Al-Awadi, a paramedic with the Masam Landmine Clearance project -Yemen. The humanitarian landmine clearance project currently has 42 medics deployed in Yemen: 32 national manual mine clearance (MMC) team medics, two national doctors — medical co-ordinators headquartered in Marib and in…
