Posted on 09/24/2021 3:47:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany and France said they and other European Union countries have nominated Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia for a second term as director-general of the World Health Organization. This marks the first time that a candidate for the top job at the U.N. health agency has not been nominated by the home country.
Tedros, who goes by his first name, has been in the global spotlight over the organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic over the last 19 months -– an epochal crisis that eclipsed all else throughout his term that began in 2017. The election for the next WHO director-general, which carries a five-year term, takes place at the agency’s next annual assembly meeting in May.
Tedros has run afoul of the Ethiopian government of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed over his outspokenness about killings and other human rights abuses in his home region of Tigray. Tedros was formerly a top official in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, once a dominant member of a coalition running Ethiopia but now designated by the national government as a terrorist group.
Tedros also served as health and foreign minister in the previous Ethiopian government. …
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Shocker! Yawn.
Deep States don’t hire the front office types for brains, do they...
No; just loyalty.
So, a terrorist runs the WHO?
Germany and France are cool with that?
How Biden of them.
Yeah, but Biden’s a monster to them now because of Afghanistan and AUKUS. Can’t ever accuse those wonderful country leaders of being like Biden now . . .
Tedros has been bought but the question remains. Why?
Tedros has run afoul of the Ethiopian government of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed over his outspokenness about killings and other human rights abuses in his home region of Tigray. Tedros was formerly a top official in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, once a dominant member of a coalition running Ethiopia but now designated by the national government as a terrorist group.
Tedros also served as health and foreign minister in the previous Ethiopian government.
It's what China wanted.
The Daily Mail does loves paragraph long titles, however they do spell out the story. Tedros should have been fired, declared persona non grata, and given a one way ticket home.
They’d never do that to a fellow traveler.
Trump defunded and left WHO last year, but guess who made us rejoin and restored their funding this year.
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