Masam Special Task team has destroyed an unexploded missile on the shore of the Dhubab district, on the west coast of Yemen. In a statement, Engineer Adib Rajab, the leader of the Special task team in Aden and the West Coast, said that the team had detonated a missile on the beach of Dhubab district…
Project Masam has successfully removed and destroyed 1002 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and various unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s Bab Al-Mandab. The operation carried out today (December 14) by Masam teams included the destruction of 453 anti-tank mines, 68 UXO, 453 miscellaneous fuses, eight IEDs, and 20 anti-personnel mines. Engineer Adib Rajab, Deputy Team…
Young Mubarak and his friend were heading to the market to buy bread when a landmine detonated. The explosion killed his friend on the spot, left Mubarak without a lower leg and shrapnel littering his body. The young man told Project Masam: “I have become unable to practice many of the professions I used to…
Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi said in a phone interview with Yemen-based Aden Satellite Channel that since the end of June 2018 up until now, Masam’s engineering teams have destroyed more than 376,000 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices, which he said it not only a great achievement in Yemen, but also on an…
Project Masam Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi has told Abu-Dhabi-based independent newspaper Al-Fajr that, of the 11 Yemeni governorates where his landmine clearance project operates, southwestern Taiz governorate is by far the most contaminated by Houthi landmines. Yemeni lands have witnessed new developments and obstacles in how the Houthi militia plant mines, Al-Fajr reported in an…
A number of Yemeni journalists and human rights activists have commented on the extensive and indiscriminate planting of landmines in Yemen. Discussing Project Masam’s aim to clean and secure Yemeni lands of landmines planted by Houthi militias, journalist Mobeen Abu Aser from the governorate of Marib, said he believes Masam’s humanitarian work is one Yemenis…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 376,200 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,919 anti-personnel mines, 134,853 anti-tank mines, 7,638 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 227,790 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 41,709,403sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
A year has passed since 12-year old Mohammed lost his right leg in a mine explosion near his home in Al-Khouah village, Taiz governorate in northern Yemen. However, he has been in pay since. Mohammed told Project Masam: “My life became very difficult after I lost my leg in a mine explosion while I was…
LIke many in Yemen, Mushir Ali’s life changed forever after he encountered a landmine while he was collecting firewood. The family man told Project Masam he is now unable to move without the help of others, but uses all his strength and determination to keep going. The former breadwinner said both his future and that…
Jamila Qasim, a mother of daughters, was out herding sheep when she walked on a landmine. This incident changed her life forever. Her lower limbs were amputated and Jamila now. This is her story, as told to Project Masam. “I went out to herd the sheep. I was walking and stepped on one of the…
