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…
One of Project Masam’s demining teams has successfully secured 18 water wells in Taiz Governorate. Water wells are vital in the region, but the presence of landmines deprived farmers from irrigation for long periods of time following the beginning of the Yemeni conflict. Team 23 successfully secured the water wells in Al-Safalia in Mawza district…
Houthi militias have destroyed ecosystems by planting hundreds of thousands of landmines since the start of the conflict in Yemen, the President of the Republic of Yemen told the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt on Monday. During the two week conference, a total of 40,000 participants are expected to attend Sharm El-Sheikh…
Project Masam has announced its has located and destroyed 371,236 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,701 anti-personnel mines, 134,108 anti-tank mines, 7,568 improvised explosive devices and 223,859 unexploded ordnance neutralised over 40,264,827sqm 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…
