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 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Wednesday released its report following a painstaking investigation, concluding that Serious human rights abuses, including torture, extra-judicial killings and executions took place in the Tigray region of Ethiopia between November 3, 2020, and June 28, 2021, and that the violations may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes.