Project Masam has destroyed and detonated 686 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices in the Bab al-Mandab district in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz. In a statement, Engineer Yasser Salem Al-Mazloumi, deputy leader of the task force in Aden and the West Coast Sector, said that the destruction operation carried out by Masam on January…
Yemen is close to becoming the most landmine contaminated country since World War II, according to Somaya Al-Mahmoud, Director of Public Relations and Media Affairs Officer of Project Masam, said in an interview with Al-Qahera News. Masam is a humanitarian project launched under the umbrella of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief)…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 382,094 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,999 anti-personnel mines, 135,763 anti-tank mines, 7,673 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 232,659 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 43,191,057sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
A lawyer has claimed that up to 2,000 civilians have been killed by landmines in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate since 2015. Omar al-Hamiri, lawyer and human rights activist, said that since 2018, Project Masam has cleared 5,000 internationally-banned anti-personnel landmines. Al-Hamiri said, “Taiz has suffered from different crimes committed by the Houthi militia, yet the random…
Ahmed Seif Mahyoub left his house to visit his parents in the village of Ekad, in Jabal Habashi District in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate, when he walked on a landmine. Ahmed’s legs were torn apart. In an interview with Project Masam, Ahmed said, “I was going to visit my family whom I hadn’t seen for a…
Three civilians from a same family have been injured in the explosion of a landmine on a desert road in Al-Jawf Governorate, northern Yemen. A local source in Al-Jawf Governorate told Project Masam’s press office that a Houthi landmine detonated under the car of civilian Sam Saleh Ali al-Dabaa, who was travelling with his brothers…
The lines on Fatima Qa’eid’s face are a witness to how difficult her life has been. In the midst of the war rocking her area, Fatima walked on a landmine on the road. It badly affected her back and one of her legs was amputated. Today, Fatima spends most of the day on her dilapidated…
The director of Al-Shaab School in the village of Akkad, Ahmed Muhammad Al-Barkani, has said that Project Masam’s teams have enabled the educational process in the school to get back on track, after completely securing it from landmines. Al-Barkani said that the demining operations which Masam carried out in Al-Shaab School enabled the school staff…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that the project teams have removed 1,282 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices last week. In its statement, Project Masam said that the project teams have removed 1,151 unexploded ordnance and two explosive devices since the beginning of the month. Management added that the project teams removed this week…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 380,887 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,985 anti-personnel mines, 135,648 anti-tank mines, 7,672 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 231,582 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 42,916,981sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
