African delegates celebrated with ululations and high-fives when Ethiopia's Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected director-general of the World Health Organization earlier this week in Geneva. Now, Tedros faces a slew of challenges as he takes the helm of a sprawling organization with more than 7,000 employees in 150 countries, responsible for improving health care around the world. It is a victory for Africa and a victory for Dr. Tedros personally," Meles Alem, an Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, told VOA's Amharic service. "The WHO's ability to respond cannot be constrained by its resources," Tedros wrote in an opinion piece published in the medical journal The BMJ. "You can develop that attitude of responding to epidemics when you do simulations," Tedros said during a press conference after his win.

Source: Ethiopian News May 26, 2017 17:26 UTC