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Ethiopia’s Cholera-Denying WHO Candidate is Taking a Battering Online

May 21, 2017May 21, 2017TesfaNews7 Comments

BY ENDALK Thousands of Tweets, several open letters and a relentless online campaign have dogged Ethiopia’s candidate for the World Health Organization Director-General position, Tedros Adahanom, as member states prepare to vote on May 23, 2017. But why do Ethiopians dislike him so much?

Does Dr. Tedros Adhanom have the Requisite Qualifications to Become Next WHO DG?

April 22, 2016TesfaNews43 Comments

By Keffyalew Gebremedhin, Eight medical doctors have served the World Health Organization (WHO) as its directors-general, through it the international community, in the post-war world from 1948 to the present, beginning with Dr. B.Chisholm of Canada, and now the incumbent another Canadian Dr. Margaret Chan, with dual citizenship (Chinese, Hong Kong). The only exception in […]