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 February 17, the long-awaited summit between the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU), delayed since 2020, will finally begin. But since the event was scheduled, the world has been ravaged by a pandemic that has stalled a decade of continuous growth and human capital improvement on the African continent.