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 Senegal, United States, Germany, Indonesia and Belize are co-hosting the second COVID-19 summit today, May 12, 2022, barely eight months after the first Global COVID-19 Summit was convened by the United States on September 22, 2021.