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 governments of Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, on Monday released a joint statement, condemning the widespread arrests and detentions of “ethnic Tigrayans, including Orthodox priests, older people, and mothers with children.”