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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 humanitarian situation in Ethiopia is ‘distressing’ and people are ‘starving and dying’ because of the lack of humanitarian access that would have allowed supplies to reach the people in need, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Friday as the war, which started in Tigray, has now expanded to Amhara and Afar regions. The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has been accused of being responsible for the blockade.