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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.
America is mourning Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants and four-star general who rose to become the first Black Secretary of State in U.S. history. Powell died on Monday at the age of 84 following complications from COVID-19, according to his family.