The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) for another year the Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance (Masam) in Yemen, at a cost of $33.292 million, to clear explosive ordnances planted by the Houthi militia.
The project, launched in 2018, has successfully removed almost 347,000 various types of explosive materials including anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines that have been randomly planted across Yemen and often in civilian areas like roads, schools and farms.
Aside from clearing mines, the project also implements training and capacity building activities for Yemenis in the field of clearing mines.
“Renewing this contract with the implementing partner is part of sense of responsibility of the center in the humanitarian responsibility towards brothers in Yemen,” Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabeeah, advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of Ksrelief, said in a statement released by state news agency SPA.
Mines manufactured and installed by the Houthi militia target innocent civilians an “caused permanent disabilities, chronic disabilities and several human losses that targeted women, children and the elderly,” the official added.
