Press Releases

The United States is providing nearly $52 million in additional humanitarian assistance to help people affected by the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region - from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department. According to the United Nations, there are four and a half million people in need of aid, out of a population of six million.

As the world marks the somber 10-year anniversary of the conflict in Syria, the U.S. Government affirms its commitment to supporting the Syrian people, who continue to endure one of the largest and most complex humanitarian emergencies of our time.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing nearly $104 million in additional humanitarian assistance to respond to the ongoing crisis in Nigeria, where an estimated 8.7 million people are at risk.

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing more than $3.5 million in rapid response Ebola assistance to support efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Guinea. The assistance will support disease surveillance, laboratory testing, infection prevention and control, contact tracing, community awareness and social mobilization, and logistics management.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) applauds El Salvador on being officially certified by the World Health Organization as malaria free, the first Central American country to secure this landmark achievement. The U.S. Government, through USAID and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is proud to have supported El Salvador on its journey to malaria elimination and contributed to the decades of multisectoral collaboration that helped make this result possible.

Today, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken announced nearly $191 million in additional humanitarian assistance at the virtual 2021 High Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen. Combined with the nearly $160 million provided at the end of last year, the United States has provided more than $350 million since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2021. In total, the United States—one of the largest donors to the humanitarian response—has provided more than $3.4 billion to alleviate the suffering of the people of Yemen since the crisis began six years ago.

Today, thanks to Congress and the generosity of the American people, President Biden announced that the United States intends to provide an initial $2 billion, out of a total planned $4 billion, to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to support the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (Gavi COVAX AMC) to provide COVID-19 vaccines for 92 low- and middle-income countries.

USAID has stood shoulder to shoulder with the people of Burma for decades in their struggle for peace, democracy, and freedom. They deserve nothing less. President Biden has described the Burmese military’s February 1, 2021 coup as a “direct assault on the country’s transition to democracy and the rule of law.” The people of Burma have struggled for too long and made too many sacrifices for the military to erase this progress in such an undemocratic manner.

As President Biden made clear in his remarks today, it is a new day for USAID, the United States, and the world.