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.
United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Wednesday spoke with South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor about “the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the negative ripple effects it is already causing to food security and prices for essential commodities in Africa.”