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.
U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday extended a national emergency on Sudan which was first declared in 1997, saying that ‘the military takeover of the government and arrest of civilian leaders’ last Monday threaten positive gains made by Sudan in its transition toward democracy since 2019.