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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.
U.S. and coalition flights evacuated 1,200 people from Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of those who have been moved to safety to 116,700 since August 14, a White House official said on Monday.