Project Masam teams have located, cleared or destroyed 1,201 landmines and unexploded ordnance in the last week across Yemen. Operating since mid-2018, Masam currently has 32 teams working in liberated areas across the country and conducts humanitarian clearance in accordance with priorities set by the Yemeni National Authority. Teams operating out of Masam’s Marib headquarters…
Project Masam marked International Mine Awareness Day (4 April 2022) by holding a photography exhibition followed by a panel discussion with mine action experts, who shared insights into the Yemeni conflict and its impact on the proliferation of landmines. Since 2015, 4 April has been the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine…
Yahya Ali Salem is a Yemeni farmer. He used to grow grains, melons, sesame and fodder for livestock. Then he was displaced by the conflict. When his area was liberated, he was finally able to return home, to his land. What he found was an area littered with landmines. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government…
Yahya Ali Salem is a Yemeni farmer. He used to grow grains, melons, sesame and fodder for livestock. Then he was displaced by the conflict. When his area was liberated, he was finally able to return home, to his land. What he found was an area littered with landmines. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government…
Giving an update about the situation in Yemen’s Ataq Directorate in Shabwah Governorate, the Deputy Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action (YEMAC) in Marib, Muntather Al-Radfani discussed YEMAC and Masam’s efforts to clear booby-trapped landmines. Yemen’s central energy-rich Shabwah province has been a central frontline in the conflict between Houthi militias and pro-government forces and has…
Giving an update about the situation in Yemen’s Ataq Directorate in Shabwah Governorate, the Deputy Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action (YEMAC) in Marib, Muntather Al-Radfani discussed YEMAC and Masam’s efforts to clear booby-trapped landmines. Yemen’s central energy-rich Shabwah province has been a central frontline in the conflict between Houthi militias and pro-government forces…
The Deputy Director of the Yemeni Executive Mine Action Centre (YEMAC) has warned that the scale and density of landmine planting is a fast-growing issue in Yemen, where demining teams are stretched thin and struggling to keep up with the workload. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines across the…
The Deputy Director of the Yemeni Executive Mine Action Centre (YEMAC) has warned that the scale and density of landmine planting is a fast-growing issue in Yemen, where demining teams are stretched thin and struggling to keep up with the workload. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines across the…
In the midst of the continued threat from landmines in liberated areas of Yemen, Project Masam is still finding moments of triumph and celebration. The sheer number of landmines planted in recent months has led experts to warn that the armed group’s new tactics could hamper mine eradication in Yemen, as well as pose an…
One of Project Masam’s teams has removed 360 anti-tank mines in less than 24 hours after civilians reported a landmine explosion accident in the strategic northern governorate of Marib. Since Yemen’s civil was began in 2014, Houthi militias have planted land and seamines across the war-torn country. Whilst the Houthis’ use of landmines has been widely…
