Leader of Masam’s Team 15, Engineer Sultan Al-Qubei has confirmed the successful completion of surveying and clearing of landmines in the Shaqt Al-Alqa desert area in Yemen’s Shabwah governorate. The demining team has been operating for two months in this vital area which links the Hareb, Beihan and Usaylan districts. Al-Qubei pointed out that most…
A villager has described how civilians have experienced successive disasters due to the presence of landmines in his area in Yemen’s western Mawza district. Muhammad Saleh Maraani, who is from Al-Safalia village, told Project Masam villagers lost their livelihoods and access to drinking water. The villager told how social life was brought to a standstill,…
Between Autumn 2021 and Spring 2022, humanitarian landmine clearance project Masam’s deminers witnessed a rise in the targeting of demining activities. In short, Yemen’s Houthi militia — who are designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the internationally-recognised Yemeni government-in-exile and the United Nations — were reportedly fitting landmines with something called anti-handling mechanisms that means that…
The Yemeni Minister of Water and Environment Tawfiq Al-Sharjabi has described how Project Masam has contributed to mitigate the effects and repercussions of humanitarian and environmental disasters caused by Houthi landmines in Yemen. In cooperation with the Yemeni government, Masam succeeded in clearing large quantities of landmines in heavily contaminated areas – notably the West…
Local villagers in Yemen’s Usaylan district have described how life returned to normal after Project Masam cleared their areas of landmines. Hussein Saleh Mubarak, a resident of Usaylan district, expressed his happiness and thanked Project Masam, which allowed the residents of his area to safely restore the water wells designated for drinking and agriculture after…
Project Masam has destroyed hundreds of anti-tank mines in the west of Yemen’s Shabwah province. Leader of Team 14, Engineer Muhammad Qamata, confirmed that the engineering teams removed 462 landmines in the past weeks from the districts of Behan, Usaylan and Ain in Shabwah province and Hareb district, south of Marib province. Qamata explained…
Project Masam has successfully removed and destroyed 1,392 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and various unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate. The destruction operation, in Bab al-Mandeb district, included 483 anti-tank mines, 46 UXO, 483 assorted fuses, 12 anti-personnel mines, five IEDs, and 368 assorted bullets. Engineer Adeeb Rajab, Deputy Commander of the Special Task…
The director of a school in western Yemen’s Taiz Governorate that was heavily mined by Houthi militias has finally been cleared, allowing students to pursue their studies. Al-Amal School in Al-Safalia in Mawza district served as a Houthi stronghold when the militants controlled the area. Huge parts of the buildings were destroyed, while the surrounding…
One of Masam’s demining teams has secured a number of schools located in Yemen’s western Mawza district. Mawza is located in Taiz Governorate, one of Yemen’s heavily contaminated areas which have seen the majority of people injured or killed by explosive remnants of war (ERW), according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…
Standing in front of the Zaid Oyoun school, which was damaged by a landmines, Ali Muhammad Abdo, Director of the Mawza Educational Department, told Masam that Houthi landmines have tragically impacted Mawza civilians, including young men, women and children. Abdo confirmed that Houthi militias have been systematically planting landmines and improvised explosive items (IEDs), which…
