Ahmed Seif Mahyoub’s story

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…

Fatima Qa’eid’s story

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…

Masam clears 380,887 landmines and explosive threats in Yemen

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…

Haj Abdullah’s story

In southwestern Yemen, Haj Abdullah left his house on a street leading to the Republican hospital in Taiz, when a Houthi landmine exploded just metres away from the healthcare complex. Following the incident, Haj Abdullah’s body was pierced by shrapnel and his leg had to be amputated. “When the mine first exploded I felt nothing,…