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 embattled Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, who has come under fire from human rights organizations around the world for his grave rights abuses, has fired defense minister Lemma Megersa, a former ally.