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.
At least six American troops, one French and one Czech, died on Thursday in a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crash off the coast of Egypt, officials said in a statement.