UK funding for land mine clearance scrapped in Lebanon, Iraq and S. Sudan
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(The New Arab) Humanitarian organisations have warned of the dire consequences UK funding cuts to land mine clearance will have on some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.
UK government funding for land mine clearance in Lebanon, Iraq and South Sudan, as well as three other countries, has been scrapped in what humanitarian organisations called a "catastrophic collapse in support".