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 United States said on Monday evening that it is “deeply concerned by events in Burkina Faso,” just hours after military officers announced on state television that they had ousted President Roch Marc Kaboré, dissolved the government and national assembly and suspended the constitution.
