Tedros served as Ethiopia’s health minister and foreign minister from 2005-2016 in a ruling coalition led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Abiy has since folded the other three regional parties into his own national party, but the TPLF refused to join. Birhanu accused Tedros of using his international platform to try to get diplomatic support and weapons for the TPLF. “He has been doing everything to support them, he has campaigned to get the neighboring countries to condemn the war. He was elected in May 2017 as the WHO’s first African director-general on a platform of promoting universal health care.

Source: Ethiopian News November 20, 2020 02:15 UTC