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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 United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has welcomed a second donation of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine as part of the U.S. government’s efforts to fight the pandemic in Mali and around the world. This shipment of 168,000 vaccine doses arrived in Bamako, Mali, on October 23, 2021, and was delivered to Mali’s Ministry of Health and Social Development.