Ethiopia accuses WHO chief of backing defiant Tigray region

WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

Ethiopia’s government has accused the head of the World Health Organisation of lobbying neighboring countries to aid the rebellious Tigray regional government with arms and other support.

General Birhanu Jula, Ethiopia’s army chief, told reporters that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a fellow Ethiopian, had urged unnamed neighbours to “oppose the war and for (the Tigray People’s Liberation Front) to get arms”.