Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

African diplomats are pushing back against an attempt by United States officials to undermine Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's leadership of the World Health Organisation (WHO) ahead of its general assembly in Geneva which is due to open on 18 May...

No doubt without intending to United States President Donald Trump succeeded in dissolving many differences between the World Health Organisation and the pre-eminent US public health institution the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) when he cancelled funding for the WHO and pointed an accusing finger at Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for his role in the global pandemic (AC Vol 61 No 8 The war for the cure)...

Although the WHO is caught in this row independent health professionals reckon that its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Ethiopia's former health minister has managed the competing interests effectively...

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Ethiopia's former health minister sent a research team to Wuhan China within days of being notified about the outbreak...

The WHO in Geneva whose Ethiopian director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has become the face of the international system's response can extrapolate from infection patterns in Asia and Europe although differing climatic and social conditions limit the value of those models (AC Vol 57 No 24 New faces old tactics)...

Yet Mohamed has extensively networked with member-state foreign ministers in the past year as she championed criticism alongside Ethiopia's then-Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom of the International Criminal Court for its handling of African cases...

He replaces Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who hopes to head the World Health Organisation...

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom has invited El Sisi to visit Addis...

A delegation of African Union officials led by Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom flew to Juba on 19 to meet President Salva who has tempered his public position in recent days having initially accused Riek of mounting a coup...

Departing from protocol Ethiopia's Foreign Minister and the Chairman of the AU Executive Council Tedros Adhanom announced the immunity proposal which the participants were to consider the next day...