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.
The leaders of the United States, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Commission on Saturday announced in a joint statement that they were moving to remove ‘selected’ Russian banks from the SWIFT messaging system.
