International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women: We need to eradicate landmines’ deadly legacy disproportionally impacting women and girls

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This International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Project Masam wanted to highlight the impact of mines and explosive remnants of war on women and girls. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted millions of land and naval mines across vast areas of the war-torn country and its territorial waters.  Unfortunately, the gender dimensions of…

Parents feared children would be illiterate after landmines prevented them from attending school, says student

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A student has described how parents feared their children would be illiterate after the presence of landmines prevented them from going to school in several Yemeni governorates. Mohamed Al-Masabi, a student in the Faculty of Education in Bayhan, said that landmines caused extensive damage, after Houthi militias targeted schools and educational facilities. The student thanked…

‘Everyone in Yemen has suffered either directly or indirectly due to landmines,’ says education director

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Abdullah Sha’noun, the director of activities at the Education Office in Yemen’s Harib district, has said that everyone in Yemen has suffered either directly or indirectly due to landmines. “Everyone is targeted: the young, the adult, the merchant, the farmer, the civilian, the military, the activist, the student, and even the sick,” Sha’noun said. “Everyone…

Masam destroys 1,526 landmines in Bab al-Mandab 

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Project Masam has successfully removed and destroyed 1,526 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and various unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate. The destruction operation, in Bab al-Mandeb district, included 416 anti-tank mines, 46 UXO, 416 assorted fuses, and 648 assorted bullets.  Engineer Adeeb Rajab, deputy commander of the task force for the Aden sector and…

Clearance operations continue in Yemen’s Jabal Habashi province

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A Project Masam supervisor has confirmed that operations are continuing in the Jabal Habashi Directorate of Yemen’s Taiz Governorate. Colonel Aref Al Qahtani, in charge of Project Masam’s demining teams in Taiz Governorate, explained that Project Masam’s Team 22 was sent to Al-Shaab School in Akkad village after Jabal Habashi Directorate and the Education Department…