Project Masam’s operations room has announced that the project teams have removed 1,028 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices last week bringing the total number of mines removed since the beginning of the month to 3,435. In its statement, Project Masam said that the project teams have removed 3,523 unexploded ordnance and 780 anti-tank mines…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 378,636 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,960 anti-personnel mines, 135,144 anti-tank mines, 7,656 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 229,876 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 42,239,661sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
Project Masam held a stand at the book fair in Yemen’s Marib, and welcomed a large number of visitors. The pavilion also received official, military, and civilian leaders, who applauded the humanitarian role played by Masam in Yemen. Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Army, Sagheer bin Aziz, Deputy Governor of the Marib governorate Ali…
Project Masam’s management team has announced that the project’s demining teams have removed 1,408 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and explosive devices (IEDs) last week, bringing the total cleared since the beginning of December to 2,407. In a statement, Project Masam stated that since the beginning of the month, the project teams have removed 2,141 UXO…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 377,608 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,934 anti-personnel mines, 134,983 anti-tank mines, 7,642 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 229,049 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 41,931,252sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
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…
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…
