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.
Ambassador Mary Catherine Phee, the highest ranking United States official for Africa in the Biden administration, has embarked on her first trip to the continent with stops in Ghana and Burkina Faso to reinforce President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s message that “America is back” and “diplomacy is back” at the center of U.S. foreign policy.
