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.
In an opinion article published on Monday in Foreign Affairs, former U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis joined three other foreign policy and national security experts in calling on President-elect Joe Biden to dump President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy and build alliances with the rest of the world.