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…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 376,200 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,919 anti-personnel mines, 134,853 anti-tank mines, 7,638 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 227,790 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 41,709,403sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
In an update from the field, Engineer Amer Al-Bahri, Leader of Project Masam’s Team 2, confirmed that his team is working in Sae’llt Baliq in Shabwah Governorate to clear it of landmines randomly planted by the Houthi militia. Al-Bahri said that Team 2 is making great progress in Sae’llt Baliq area and work is ongoing…
A Yemeni civilian has described how people in his village remained “under siege” in their own homes for three years due to the fear of walking on a landmine. Ahmed Mubarak, who is from the Al-Hajar Kutbah area, said that the militias ravaged his village by planting landmines extensively and indiscriminately. Describing the situation, the…
The spokesman for the army in Taiz Governorate, Colonel Abdul Basit Al-Bahr, has commanded Project Masam for its humanitarian landmine clearance after it cleared swathes of land. These landmines would have continues to plague Yemenis for the next 30 years, Al-Bahr claimed. The spokesman explained that planting landmines in homes, rooftops, roads, schools, valleys, water wells,…
Nasser Saleh Hadi, a resident of the Usaylan district, has said that people in his area were unable to live normally because of fear and helplessness due to the presence of landmines, before the arrival of Project Masam’s demining team. Hadi claimed that the people of Usaylan and particularly the area of Dar al-Mansir, suffered…
Hussein Saleh Mubarak, a resident of Usaylan district, said that their district suffered a lot because of the extensive and indiscriminate planting of landmines, that have killed men, animals and plantations. Mubarak told Project Masam that his residents in his district did feel safe until Project Masam’s demining teams were dispatched to the area to…
Engineer Nasser Awad al-Sayed, Leader of Masam’s Team 6, said that his team has been working since September 10 in the Shaq Al-Tayyar area, where 35,000 square meters of land have been demined. The team leader also indicated that 20 anti-personnel mines have been removed so far from the Shaq al-Tayyar area, a desert area linking…
