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.
U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has expressed outrage over the diversion of Ryanair flight to Belarus to arrest a journalist Raman Pratasevich, calling it “a direct affront to international norms.”