sharpsharpit Ethiopia accuses WHO chief of links to rebellious Tigrayan forces Ethiopia demands that the World Health Organization (WHO) investigate its leader for supporting rebellious forces fighting the Ethiopian government, the foreign ministry said. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who previously served as the Ethiopian Health Minister and Foreign Minister, said earlier this week that aid was being blocked from getting through to his home region of Tigray, where rebellious forces are fighting the central government. “Tedros Adhanom’s moral, legal […]
sharpsharpit ‘This is serious’: Brace for an Omicron ‘tsunami’, warns WHO A Covid-19 “tsunami” threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems, the WHO said Wednesday, as record surges fuelled by the Omicron variant dampened New Year celebrations around the world once again. Governments are walking a tightrope between anti-virus restrictions and the need to keep societies and economies open, as the highly transmissible variant drove cases to levels never seen before in the United States, Britain, France and Denmark. Omicron tsunami ushers […]