A student has described how Yemenis’ lives have been paused by the presence of landmines across the country. Asmaa al-Shawafi, a student at the Faculty of Education in Bayhan, told Project Masam that landmines have had a huge impact on society, the economy, the environment, and life in general and that Yemen has suffered from…
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…
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…
