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.
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa on Monday acknowledged that “climate change presents serious health, environmental and economic risks for our country,” and that “these risks will have increasingly damaging effects on human health, water availability, food production, infrastructure and migration.”