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 and Africa have vowed to escalate their fight against COVID-19 with wide distribution of vaccines at a meeting between USAID Administrator Samantha Power and Dr. John Nkengasong, the Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).