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.
On January 28, the United Nations World Food Program released its report on the devastating war in northern Ethiopia, warning that at least 83 percent of people in the Tigray region are food insecure and that almost 40 percent of Tigrayans are suffering an extreme lack of food after 15 months of conflict. However, more than three weeks after, nothing much has changed.