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 US, UK, France, Germany and Italy said in a joint statement on Tuesday that Syria’s presidential election will neither be free nor fair, and denounced Assad regime’s decision to hold an election “outside of the framework described in UN Security Council Resolution 2254.”