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.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa asserted on Monday that dire predictions about Africa’s inability to respond to COVID-19 have not materialized. He described Africa’s management of the pandemic as “a story of defied expectations,” noting that after two years, the continent has recorded 11 million cases of COVID-19, the lowest in the world.
