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.
U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has personally comforted Ethiopian and Eritrean Americans amid multiple crises affecting their loved ones in the Horn of Africa, including the devastating conflict in the Tigray region, severe human rights abuses and the coronavirus pandemic.
