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 Special Session of the World Health Assembly opened in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday amid the Omicron variant scare, the imposition of travel bans and the debate over whether countries should follow scientific evidence or bow to political realities.
