"Stop your people from migrating or lose aid sounds to me like a message of cohesion and not cooperation. This reduces the African nations actually to border guards rather than equal partners in development..."
"Nobody really knows what's happening," one project manager running a Syria-based project told DW about the US cuts in aid funding. "They haven't put a complete stop to it yet so we're just spending the money on a monthly basis and hoping for the best."
King Felipe VI emphasized the need for a new roadmap focusing on concrete, achievable results amidst funding cuts, particularly from nations increasing defense spending over aid.
