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.
Heavily armed policemen on Sunday opened fire in Zaria and Kaduna on religious mourners soon after completing this year’s Ashura processions, a religious rite held by Shiites globally on the 10th of Muharram Islamic calendar.