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 United States announced on Thursday that it will be providing nearly $313 million in additional humanitarian assistance to help people affected by the ongoing conflict in northern Ethiopia, saying that more than 90 percent of people in Tigray need aid.