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 Ethiopian government reacted angrily on Wednesday after the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and the Executive Director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program, Dr. Michael Ryan, decried the humanitarian blockade in Tigray that has put millions of people at risk.