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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.
The United States has evacuated nearly 17,000 people from Afghanistan since August 14 when the Taliban reached Kabul, and approximately 3,800 in the past 24 hours.