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.
Ethiopian forces bombed Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, on Monday, escalating a war that has caused thousands of dead and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.