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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who were once allies, are now on opposite sides of a campaign to discredit Tedros. Previously undisclosed Ethiopian government documents reveal allegations of embezzlement and sexual misconduct against Tedros, who denies all the accusations.
The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, which produced a damning report that cited mass killings, rape, starvation, forced displacement and arbitrary jailings during the Tigray war, has been shut down.
A cache of documents reveal an Ethiopian government investigation into Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He calls it a “smear campaign.”
For 400 hot and dusty kilometers, a two-lane highway cuts through central Africa, its path lined with the carcasses of trucks, buses and minivans, but this modest road holds outsize value for global markets, connecting some of the continent’s richest mines to the rest of the world and, most notably, China. Along the route, thousands of flatbed trucks haul sheets of copper and sacks of cobalt hydroxide, essential for electric vehicles and other 21st-century technologies. Their drivers must pay steep tolls — as much as US$900 for a round trip. For almost a decade, a cut of those tolls flowed...
Audits allege $238 million paid to transport cobalt and copper have gone missing.