They are two of the best-known African leaders on the planet. The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed , Ethiopia’s prime minister, and his compatriot Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , who as head of the World Health Organization became the face of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet the two are now on opposite sides of a bitter power play exposed by previously undisclosed Ethiopian government documents that appear to show how the Abiy administration tried to discredit the global health leader with allegations of embezzlement and sexual misconduct ahead of his reappointment at the WHO in 2022. Tedros, who has denied all the allegations and hasn’t been charged with any crimes, says he is reluctant to return to his native Ethiopia — Africa’s second-most populous nation — without assurances that he and his family will be safe.

Source: Ethiopian News October 02, 2023 11:30 UTC