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.
On the second day of his official trip to Africa’s most populous nation, United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken sat down with CNN Bureau Chief in Nigeria Stephanie Busari and she asked him about the raging conflict in Ethiopia between the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).