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.
The Biden administration is “gravely concerned” by reported “atrocities” and the overall “deteriorating situation” in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, U.S. Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken said in a statement on Saturday.