As an appreciation of their hard work and generosity, Project Masam’s management has given a day off to all its demining teams in Yemen. The 32 teams of engineers, distributed across eight Yemeni governorates starting from Shabwah in the east to Taiz, Hodeidah, and Hajja to the west, have been given a day off on…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 372,652 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,720 anti-personnel mines, 134,412 anti-tank mines, 7,577 improvised explosive devices and 224,943 unexploded ordnance neutralised over 40,736,537sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic areas have been left littered with Houthi anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines, along with unexploded remnants…
Eman is a young Yemeni girl who is no longer able to play with her friends in the streets of her village in the district of Hays, south of Yemen’s western Al Hudaydah Governorate. The little girl lost her right hand as a result of the explosion of a landmine planted by the Houthi militia…
Since 2015, the Houthi militia has planted landmines and explosive devices, extensively and randomly, across Yemen. Schools have sadly been one of the targets of the militia – they have been used as military barracks and have been booby-trapped – which locals claim was done to spread fear and terror among young people, and put…
On this World Children’s Day, Project Masam has shared the stories of several children living in Yemen. While the war has had a huge impact on their lives, the presence of landmines has altered their future forever. Rasha Mahmoud was severely wounded by a landmine on her way back from the shop. Her injuries mean…
The Deputy Director of the Education Office in Jabal Habshi Directorate in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate said that Project Masam brought life back to a local school after it successfully cleared landmines and explosive devices from its premises. Yassin Al-Barkani explained that the Al Shaab School in the Akkad village was used by Houthi militias during…
A Project Masam supervisor has described how removing landmines from a Yemeni school has been successfully carried out despite difficult circumstances. Colonel Aref Al Qahtani, in charge of Project Masam’s demining teams in Taiz Governorate, explained that Team 22 discovered live ammunition – including 122 mm artillery shells – in a school in the Jabal…
A village leader has confirmed that hundreds of students have been pushed out of their local school and distributed among other remote schools after landmines destroyed half of their school. Sheikh Abdul-Rahman al-Neweehy, a leader of the Akkad village in Taiz Governorate’s Jabal Habashi district, told Project Masam:”We were shocked by an explosion that rocked…
Since 2015, the Houthi militias have adopted the approach of planting landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) intensively and indiscriminately in all areas and villages they seized all over Yemen. Schools were one of the places deliberately targeted by the Houthi militias – they turned them into military barracks or littered them with landmines and…
The head of Jabal Habashi district, west of Taiz Governorate in Yemen’s southwest has warned that the majority of parents in his area had stopped sending their children to school because of the presence of landmines near or in these schools. On the other hand, some parents had no other choice but to send their…
