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 Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman has acknowledged that it would be ‘politically costly’ for the government of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali to sit down right now across the table for direct talks with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).