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 travel ban President Joseph R. Biden Jr. imposed last month on eight southern African nations to limit the spread of the Omicron variant into the United States has been officially lifted.