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.
Fears are mounting that Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country with a rich history and diverse culture, may be on the brink of a break up, as tensions escalate in the strategically important Tigray region, and thousands of Oromo people and opposition leaders remain incommunicado, locked up in various cells across the country.