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.
Pope Francis on Monday discussed the humanitarian tragedy in Ethiopia’s Tigray region with the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken when both met in the Vatican City, the Biden administration said in a statement, as 900,000 people face unprecedented famine.