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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 Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Monday night issued a more comprehensive U.S. condemnation of the military takeover in Sudan that led to the arrest and detention of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, his wife, and several civilian ministers, describing it as “a betrayal of Sudan’s peaceful revolution.”