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 World Bank Group announced on Wednesday that it has approved a $2.3 billion program to address escalating food insecurity in Eastern and Southern Africa with the first phase of the project targeting Ethiopia and Madagascar where more than 30 million people are food insecure as a result of severe drought.
