Ethiopia brands WHO chief’s Tigray comments ‘unethical’

World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is himself an ethnic Tigrayan (Johanna Geron/Pool Photo via AP)

Ethiopia’s government has criticised as “unethical” a statement by the World Health Organisation’s director-general that the crisis in the country’s Tigray region is “the worst disaster on Earth” and his assertion that the lack of attention from global leaders may be due to Tigrayans’ skin colour.

The spokeswoman for Ethiopia’s prime minister told journalists that the comments by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus were “unbecoming of such a high-profile position”.