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When Shekinah was working as a nurse’s aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said, she was offered a job from a World Health Organization doctor at double her salary in exchange for sex.
“Given the financial difficulties of my family … I accepted,” said Shekinah, 25, who asked that only her first name be used for fear of repercussions. She said the Canadian doctor, Boubacar Diallo, who often bragged about his connections to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made the same proposition to several of her friends.
When a staffer and three Ebola experts working in Congo informed WHO management about sex abuse concerns regarding Diallo, they were told not to take the matter further, The Associated Press has found.
Internal emails reveal WHO knew of sex abuse claims in Congo
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BENI, Congo (AP) – When Shekinah was working as a nurse’s aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said, she was offered a job from a World Health Organization doctor at double her salary – in exchange for sex.
“Given the financial difficulties of my family “¦ I accepted,” said Shekinah, 25, who asked that only her first name be used for fear of repercussions. She said the Canadian doctor, Boubacar Diallo, who often bragged about his connections to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made the same proposition to several of her friends.
Internal emails reveal WHO knew of sex abuse claims in Congo
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MARIA CHENG and AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO, Associated Press
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1of12Shekinah stands near her home in Beni, eastern Congo on Thursday, March 18, 2021. When she was working as a nurse’s aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said World Health Organization Dr. Boubacar Diallo, of Canada, offered her a job investigating Ebola cases at double her previous salary with a catch. When he asked me to sleep with him, given the financial difficulties of my family….I accepted.”Kudra Maliro/APShow MoreShow Less
2of12Anifa holds her phone displaying a photo of former World Health Organization doctor Boubacar Diallo, of Canada, during an interview in the eastern Congo town of Goma on Friday, March 5, 2021. In 2019, Diallo met her when she was working in an Ebola treatment center in Beni, eastern Congo. She said Diallo told her: “How can a beautiful girl like you
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020 file photo, Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization s Health Emergencies program, speaks during a news conference at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. At right is WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. As WHO faces allegations that unnamed staffers were involved in the systemic sexual abuse of women, Tedros has declared he was âoutraged,â and Ryan said, âWe have no more information than you have.â But an AP investigation has found that senior WHO management was not only informed of specific cases of alleged sexual misconduct in 2019, but was asked how to handle them. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)