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 Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday approved a disbursement of $174.2 million to South Sudan under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) arrangement to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.