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 White House said on Tuesday that “an invasion” was now effectively underway in Ukraine and that sanctions against Russia, considered to be the aggressor, will soon be announced.