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.
At least 5400 American citizens have been evacuated from Afghanistan, the Pentagon said at a news conference on Saturday, as President Joseph R. Biden Jr. gradually puts an end to a 20-year-long war that has left more than 241,000 people dead and consumed trillions of dollars.
