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. told Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Ali on Monday not to send his troops into the Tigray region to avoid further escalation of the lingering conflict in the Horn of Africa, a senior administration official told reporters in Washington DC.