US Meets With The Elders On Ethiopia’s Tigray war

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Simon Ateba( Chief White House Correspondent )

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.

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President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met on Wednesday with representatives of The Elders, an organization of prominent former world leaders founded in 2007 by former South African President Nelson Mandela, to address global challenges, including the devastating war in northern Ethiopia.