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 humanitarian situation in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray is “horrific” with “people dying from hunger” and health centers completely “destroyed”, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.