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.
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday described as a “significant milestone” the decision by the World Bank Board to approve the establishment of a new Financial Intermediary Fund that he said “will make the world safer and more secure from pandemics.”