Norwegian People's Aid NGO lays off half its staff due to Trump policy


FILE PHOTO: Members of Norwegian People's Aid search for mines and explosive devices east of Mosul, Iraq August 16, 2017. Picture taken August 16, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari/File Photo

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian People's Aid (NPA), a humanitarian group that helps to demine war zones, will have to lay off more than half of its staff globally, following U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to freeze U.S. foreign aid, it said on Tuesday.

In 2024, NPA received 460 million crowns ($41.05 million) from the U.S. State Department for its demining work, it said, with the funding used in Iraq, Laos, Vietnam and Yemen, as well as other countries that have been at war.

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