Project Masam has announced it has removed 762 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive device (IEDs) last week as part of its humanitarian landmine clearance operations, bringing the total removed from the beginning of this month until the 14th of this month to 1334. In a statement, the Operations room said the weekly total clearance…
Project Masam’s Team 9 has announced the successful clearance and removal of 57 banned anti-personnel landmines in the As-Safra area of Usaylan district in Shabwah governorate over the course of four months. This milestone illustrates the team’s efforts and commitment to ensuring the safety of villagers and shepherds, and maintaining the security of the region…
Project Masam has cleared 406,390 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) since it launched its humanitarian landmine clearance operations in Yemen in mid-2018. Since the beginning of the war in Yemen, Houthi militias have been planting landmines and IEDs, leaving the country littered with hundreds of thousands of deadly landmines. Since June…
Project Masam’s Managing Director has described the difficult conditions in which the project’s deminers have been working as they continue to remove and clear landmines in Yemen. These landmines, planted indiscriminately and extensively by the Houthi militia across Yemen, continue to pose a significant threat to the lives of civilians, including children, women, and the…
Project Masam has announced it has removed 4,899 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive device (IEDs) during the month of June 2023 as part of its humanitarian landmine clearance operations. In June, Project Masam removed 4,307 UXO and 478 anti-tank mines, effectively clearing 752,681sqm of liberated Yemeni territory during the same period. In its…
The Undersecretary at Yemen‘s Ministry of Information, Ahmed Rabee, has visited Project Masam’s headquarters in Marib Governorate on the occasion of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s announcement to extend the project’s work for the sixth consecutive year. Rabee, accompanied by a group of journalists and human rights activists, said that his visit to Project Masam,…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 405,818 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,258 anti-personnel mines, 139,834 anti-tank mines, 7,836 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 251,890 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 47,485,089 sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014,…
The deputy governor of Yemen’s Marib governorate, Abdullah Ahmed al-Bakry, has visited Project Masam’s headquarters to congratulate its staff on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha holiday. Marib governorate is among Yemen’s most landmine-contaminated regions. During the visit, al-Bakry praised the role of Project Masam in saving the lives of millions of Yemenis from the…
The Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council President Rashad al-Alimi will award the National Program for Mine Action and Project Masam the Medal of Courage, Yemen Daily News has announced today. On Monday, June 26, Al-Alimi issued two decrees – Republican Decree No. (15) of 2023, Article 1 and Republican Decree No. (16) of 2023, Article 1 –…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 405,213 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,258 anti-personnel mines, 139,709 anti-tank mines, 7,806 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 251,410 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 47,485,089 sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014,…
