Ethiopia wants WHO to investigate Tedros over Tigray remarks
By DW
16 January 2022 |
11:21 am
Ethiopia's government has accused the head of the UN's health agency of interfering in its internal affairs. Separately, another UN body warned that the Tigray region is on "the edge of a major humanitarian disaster."
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