AdvertisementKEY PARTNERBut African leaders have warned such a threat risked ruining the only multilateral organisation capable of reaching the entire globe. Dr Tedros, a former Ethiopian health and later foreign minister, joined the WHO in 2017, becoming the first African to head the body. Moussa Faki, the African Union Commission chairperson, said he had been “surprised to learn of a campaign by the US government against the WHO’s global leadership.”“The African Union,” he said, “fully supports the WHO and Dr Tedros Adhanom. The time for accountability will come.”RARE UNITYJoining the fray, other African leaders demonstrated a rare unity in pushing back the Trump criticism. “Is it Dr Tedros, WHO, China...under attack or all of them together?” he posed on his Twitter page.

Source: Daily Nation April 10, 2020 14:03 UTC