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.
U.S. troops completely departed Afghanistan on Monday after a bloody war that lasted 20 years, left hundreds of thousands of people dead and consumed trillions of dollars.