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. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Tuesday that it was providing $100,000 in emergency assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following the Nyiragongo volcano eruption which started on May 22. The eruption triggered a series of small earthquakes.