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.
Reporters in Washington D.C. on Tuesday pressed an American official to provide more details following a telephone conversation earlier in the day between U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.