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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.
White House Press secretary Jen Psaki’s first briefing on Wednesday, just hours after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, was refreshingly relieving, a total break from the Trump era of embarrassing antagonism and vilification.