ETHIOPIA ||| Ethiopia’s Cholera-Denying Candidate to Lead the World’s Top Health Body Is Taking a Battering Online

ETHIOPIA ||| Ethiopia’s Cholera-Denying Candidate to Lead the World’s Top Health Body Is Taking a Battering Online

Thousands of Tweets, several open letters and a relentless online campaign have dogged Ethiopia’s candidate for the World Health Organization Director-General position, Tedros Adahanom, as member states prepare to vote on May 23, 2017. But why do Ethiopians dislike him so much?

With support from the Ethiopian government, Mr. Adahanom has led a robust and elaborate campaign, making it through to the last round of candidates; though the overall sources of his campaign funds remain shrouded in secrecy.

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