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The Masam Project for Mine Clearance in Yemen announced on Sunday that its field teams removed 5,164 mines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices during September.
The Saudi project's operations room, in a statement released by its media office, said that the total removed from September 1 to September 25 included 4,452 unexploded ordnance, 631 anti-tank mines, 60 anti-personnel mines, and 21 explosive devices.
It added that the project's teams managed during the same period to clear 809,860 square meters of land contaminated with mines and war remnants, without specifying particular areas.
The statement noted that the Masam Project continues its field operations to clear Yemeni areas of mines and war remnants, aiming to reduce their risks to the population and local communities.
This comes as fronts in Yemen during September 2026 witness a field escalation, amid renewed clashes between government forces and group fighters in several governorates, including Taiz, Lahj, Marib, Al-Jawf, Al-Bayda, and others.
These developments are part of a military escalation that began in early July 2026, the largest since the relative calm that followed the April 2022 truce.
Yemen has been witnessing a war since the Houthis took control of the capital Sanaa and several governorates in September 2014, before the intervention of a Saudi-led Arab coalition in March 2015 in support of the internationally recognized Yemeni government.
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