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.
Concerned Oromos in North America and Europe have written an open letter to the United States Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken, President Joseph R. Biden’s Horn of Africa special envoy Jeffrey Feltman and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres expressing “grave concern” over the safety of Mr. Dawud Ibsa, the Chairman of the Oromo Liberation Front, and his family “who are under Prime Minister Abiy’s security siege.”