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 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Monday that it would be providing nearly $105 million in humanitarian assistance to the Horn of Africa in response “to the historic drought threatening millions of lives” in the region.