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 government on Saturday morning called on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to “withdraw from the Amhara and Afar regions, including halting its advances in and around the cities of Dessie and Kombolcha,” reiterating that it remains “gravely concerned by the expansion of combat in northern Ethiopia.”
