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 U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Monday that it had designated the Republic of the Sudan Central Reserve Police (CRP) for serious human rights abuse, asserting that “the CRP has used excessive force against pro-democracy protesters peacefully demonstrating against the military-led overthrow of the civilian-led transitional government in Sudan.”
