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Tyre: Many of the dozens of teams clearing cluster bombs in south Lebanon will have to stop work this month for lack of funds, a UN spokeswoman said on Friday.
Dalya Farran of the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre said that they are short of the $4.7 million needed to fund the programme this year.
"A very large number of the clearance teams will be stopping by the end of this month if we don't get funds before that," she said.
She added that some donor countries had not kept their promises and others had lost interest two years after the war.
Thousands of unexploded cluster bomblets are scattered in southern Lebanon after Israel's war with Hezbollah in 2006.
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