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.
Global debt reached a record $226 trillion in 2020 amid COVID-19 pandemic economic turmoil, the largest one-year debt surge since World War II, according to the latest data released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday.
