The United Nations and the United States have signed an agreement under which the US committed $2 billion in humanitarian assistance for global relief programmes.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher praised this as a landmark commitment to saving lives amid escalating humanitarian needs worldwide. The agreement covers 17 crisis-affected countries: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ukraine, Haiti, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Mozambique, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan, Bangladesh, Syria, Uganda, Kenya and Chad, as well as the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).

This effort aims to help millions of people in urgent need and could save tens of millions of lives. Fletcher said that the funding supports the UN’s top priority humanitarian plan for 2026. It improves the Humanitarian Reset, which focuses on delivering aid more effectively.