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.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday defended President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s travel ban on some southern African nations but not European countries, saying that they have ‘thousands’ of Omicron cases while Europe does not.