Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Friday detailed various moves by the United States to end Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict, acknowledging that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has recently taken encouraging actions towards peace but noted that with millions of people continuing to face acute food insecurity and extreme hunger as a direct result of conflict, all parties should now use recent overtures to negotiate.
