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.
Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton on Monday jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the hepatitis C virus.