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.
On World Press Freedom Day on Monday, U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. invoked African journalists’ declaration 13 years ago in Windhoek, Namibia, that asserted that “a free press is essential to the development and maintenance of democracy in a nation, and for economic development.”
