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Yemen Online
5 days ago
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- Yemen Online
Yemen : MASAM project clears 1,317 Houthi mines
Members of Saudi Arabia's Project Masam removed 1,317 explosive devices from various regions of Yemen last week. The total included 1,276 unexploded ordnances, 38 anti-tank mines and three improvised explosive devices, according to a recent report. Ousama Al-Gosaibi, the initiative's managing director, said that 500,000 mines have been cleared since the project began in 2018. The explosives were planted indiscriminately and posed a threat to civilians, including children, women and the elderly. The demining operations took place in Marib, Aden, Jouf, Shabwa, Taiz, Hodeidah, Lahij, Sanaa, Al-Bayda, Al-Dhale and Saada. The project trains local demining engineers and provides them with modern equipment. It also offers support to Yemenis injured by the devices. Teams are tasked with clearing villages, roads and schools to facilitate the safe movement of civilians and delivery of humanitarian aid.
Yemen Online
5 days ago
- Yemen Online
MASAM project clears 1,243 mines in Yemen
Members of Saudi Arabia's Project Masam removed 1,243 explosive devices from various regions of Yemen last week. The total included 1,182 unexploded ordnances, 57 anti-tank mines and four anti-personnel mines, according to a recent report. Ousama Al-Gosaibi, the initiative's managing director, said that 501,243 mines have been cleared since the project began in 2018. The explosives were planted indiscriminately and posed a threat to civilians, including children, women and the elderly. The demining operations took place in Marib, Aden, Jouf, Shabwa, Taiz, Hodeidah, Lahij, Sanaa, Al-Bayda, Al-Dhale and Saada. The project trains local demining engineers and provides them with modern equipment. It also offers support to Yemenis injured by the devices. Teams are tasked with clearing villages, roads and schools to facilitate the safe movement of civilians and delivery of humanitarian aid.
Arab News
6 days ago
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- Arab News
Saudi project clears 1,243 mines in Yemen
RIYADH: Members of Saudi Arabia's Project Masam removed 1,243 explosive devices from various regions of Yemen last week. The total included 1,182 unexploded ordnances, 57 anti-tank mines and four anti-personnel mines, according to a recent report. Ousama Al-Gosaibi, the initiative's managing director, said that 501,243 mines have been cleared since the project began in 2018. The explosives were planted indiscriminately and posed a threat to civilians, including children, women and the elderly. The demining operations took place in Marib, Aden, Jouf, Shabwa, Taiz, Hodeidah, Lahij, Sanaa, Al-Bayda, Al-Dhale and Saada. The project trains local demining engineers and provides them with modern equipment. It also offers support to Yemenis injured by the devices. Teams are tasked with clearing villages, roads and schools to facilitate the safe movement of civilians and delivery of humanitarian aid.
Arab News
16-06-2025
- General
- Arab News
Saudi project clears 1,317 mines in Yemen
RIYADH: Members of Saudi Arabia's Project Masam removed 1,317 explosive devices from various regions of Yemen last week. The total included 1,276 unexploded ordnances, 38 anti-tank mines and three improvised explosive devices, according to a recent report. Ousama Al-Gosaibi, the initiative's managing director, said that 500,000 mines have been cleared since the project began in 2018. The explosives were planted indiscriminately and posed a threat to civilians, including children, women and the elderly. The demining operations took place in Marib, Aden, Jouf, Shabwa, Taiz, Hodeidah, Lahij, Sanaa, Al-Bayda, Al-Dhale and Saada. The project trains local demining engineers and provides them with modern equipment. It also offers support to Yemenis injured by the devices. Teams are tasked with clearing villages, roads and schools to facilitate the safe movement of civilians and delivery of humanitarian aid.
Yemen Online
11-06-2025
- General
- Yemen Online
Saudi project destroys 600 more Houthi landmines and other explosives in Yemen
Members of the Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance, also known as Project Masam, safely detonated 600 mines, unexploded ordnance and other explosive devices on Wednesday. The project's engineers had demined and removed the devices over the past few months from various parts of Yemen, including the town of Beihan and the districts of Usaylan and Ain in Shabwah governorate. Hussein Al-Aqili, commander of the project's survey team, said they carried out the destruction operation in the Thahba area of Ain district on Wednesday as part of their ongoing mission to clear mines and other remnants of war in Yemen, and save civilian lives. The project has cleared nearly 500,000 mines from the country since its work there began in 2018. Last week, Ousama Algosaibi, the managing director of Masam, warned that the Houthis continue to exploit periods of truce to plant more mines across Yemen. 'We are in a constant race with the Houthi militias; we clear mines from one side while they plant more on the other,' he said during an interview with Al-Ekhbariya TV.
