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.
The first direct flights between Sana’a, Yemen, and Amman, Jordan, have resumed. They are the first commercial flights from Sana’a since 2016, “and they demonstrate the ongoing benefits for the Yemeni people from the UN-brokered truce that went into effect nearly six weeks ago,” the U.S. government said in a statement on Monday.
