Too much focus is being given to the impact of US aid cuts and not enough to the fact that countries like China and India continue to provide very little foreign aid, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), one of the world’s largest humanitarian groups, has told The Independent.
In a wide-ranging interview held at the NGO’s headquarters in Oslo, Jan Egeland, NRC secretary general, also warned that not enough attention was being given to the climate crisis, and suggested that current plans to boost Nato military spending to five per cent of GDP at the expense of foreign aid would be “a major strategic mistake” that countries will live to regret.
