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. on Thursday asserted that protecting democracy is the “challenge of our time,” noting that half of all democracies have experienced a decline in at least one aspect of democracy over the last 10 years.
