Experts brand WHO’s handling of sexual misconduct claims ‘absurd’

Anifa, one of the alleged misconduct victims. stands in her home in the eastern Congolese town of Goma (AP)

Two experts appointed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to investigate allegations that some of its staff sexually abused women during an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have dismissed the UN agency’s efforts to excuse its handling of misconduct claims as “an absurdity”.

Some of the women allegedly abused say they are still waiting for the WHO to sack those responsible, and have not been offered any financial compensation nearly four years later.