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.
Ethiopia early this year joined two other African countries, Chad and Zambia, in asking G20 creditors for debt restructuring as the economy continues to crumble amid instability in Tigray, Oromia and elsewhere in the East African nation.