Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi, has arrived in Yemen’s temporary capital, Aden, on a periodic visit to check on the progress of the work of Masam’s engineering teams spread all over Aden and the West Coast. Upon his arrival in Aden, Algosaibi held several meetings with the project’s experts to review reports of the…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that last week, the project teams have removed 675 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices last week, bringing the total number of explosives removed from early January up to 5,290. In its statement, Project Masam said that the project teams have removed 5,463 unexploded ordnance (UXO) and eight improvised…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 384,895 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,033 anti-personnel mines, 136,190 anti-tank mines, 7,678 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 234,994 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 43,845,128sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
Project Masam has destroyed 1,378 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and explosive devices (IEDs) in Yemen’s West Coast. Deputy leader of Masam Special Task Team on the Western Coast, Engineer Adib Rajab said that his team destroyed a large amount of landmines, explosives and unexploded ordnance. Rajab explained: “The entirety of explosives that were destroyed today…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 384,220 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 6,028 anti-personnel mines, 136,061 anti-tank mines, 7,677 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 234,454 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 43,612,168sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
Project Masam has destroyed 271 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and explosive devices (IEDs) in the Qa’atabah District in Ad Dali’ Governorate. Engineer Ahmed al-Radfani, the leader of Masam’s demining Team 18, said that the destruction process carried out by Masam in Ad Dali’ included 115 anti-personnel landmines, 40 explosive devices, one anti-tank landmine, 10 unexploded…
Project Masam has participated in the open photo exhibition in Marib Governorate, with the aim of highlighting the issue of widespread plantation of landmines by Houthi militias across Yemen. The exhibition, which was organised by the Capital Media Center, included 400 photographs highlighting examples of the violations and crimes that affect civilians in the country.…
“A life without mines” is a target Project Masam has been working to achieve in Yemen for five consecutive years in order to ensure a safe and landmine-free life for the Yemenis to help bring back life to normal in this war-torn country. The random plantation of landmines everywhere in Yemen and particularly in its vital…
Teachers in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate said their school had turned into living prisons after landmines were extensively planted in their vicinity. Al-Shaab School in the village of Akkad posed a great risk to students and staff alike, according to Naji Khalil, a teacher at Al-Shaab School. Everyone feared the mines, the teacher explained. Teachers were…
Because of the presence of landmines, several Yemeni schools experienced full paralysis, as their students and staff turned away from them, and parents were afraid explosions could kill their children. Thanks to Project Masam’s humanitarian landmine clearance, the schools have been brought back to life and are back in harness. On the occasion of the…
