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.
In a phone call with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Tuesday called for an “immediate, indefinite, negotiated ceasefire” in the Tigray region.