Project Masam Announces Clearing of 1,045 Mines in Yemen

Mission Masam, a humanitarian landmine clearance venture launched by Saudi Arabia in 2018, introduced on Sunday that it cleared 1,045 mines in Yemen within the third week of January. This included 15 anti-personnel mines, 131 anti-tank mines, 896 unexploded ordnance, and three different explosive units within the provinces of Dhalea, Shabwa, Hodeidah, and Taiz. A complete of 383,193 mines laid by Houthi forces have been cleared because the venture was launched. Greater than 1 million landmines have been laid because the outbreak of the civil struggle in late 2014, when the Houthi militia took management of a number of northern provinces and compelled the Yemeni authorities out of the capital Sanaa, based on pro-government demining specialists in Yemen. Mission Masam is applied by the UN Improvement Program and funded by numerous worldwide donors, together with the EU, UK, US, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands.