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.
Senior U.S. officials have explained why President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has authorized sanctions against those standing in the way of peace in northern Ethiopia, saying that the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, as well as other actors in Eritrea and within Ethiopia seem determined to pursue war rather than peace, and the American leader was left with no choice but to act.
