In a late press conference , World Health Organization ( WHO ) theatre director - general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus provided an update on the COVID-19 pandemic , the Russian Invasion of Ukraine , and the civic war in Ethiopia , and he did not mince his countersign when it comes to the double standards of the international community of interests , in particular with esteem to the situation in Ethiopia .
For almost 18 months , Ethiopia has been in the midst of a civil war in the Tigray region of the African nation . The conflict has putover 5.2 million hoi polloi at hazard of starvation , and the kill of civilians , the rape of women and children , and the onset on refugee have become a regular occurrence .
Three weeks ago a truce was brokered and the WHO ask to turn in food and medicinal drug , to starving multitude in about 2,000 trucks . So far only20 trucks have beenable to arrive at the stirred universe . Given the global disinterest in this vast humanitarian crisis , Tedros says that he does n’t know if the world gives equal attending to Black and white life-time .
“ The whole care to Ukraine is very important , of track , because it impacts the whole world but even a fraction of it is not being open to Tigray , Yemen , Afghanistan , Syria , and the rest , a fraction . And I need to be blunt and honorable , that the humans is not treating the human race the same way . Some are more adequate than others , ” Dr Tedros said in thepress conference .
“ I desire the existence comes back to its senses and treats all human liveliness equality , ” Tedros carry on . “ So , we need to balance , we require to take every life seriously because every life is precious . ”
Tedros also call out the medium for not taking the heinousness earnestly . Tedros himself is from the Tigray neighborhood of Ethiopia and was the country ’s former Minister of Health and Minister for Foreign Affairs during the linguistic rule of the Tigray People ’s Liberation Front – the former ruling party of Ethiopia .
In January , the Prosperity Party – the current leading fusion in Ethiopia – accused Tedros of misconduct by discussing the Tigray war and claimed he was using his office “ to gain ground his political involvement at the expense of Ethiopia . ” Tedros rule out the claims of deliver such bias .
The WHO crush league also highlighted that the combined core of the Climate Crisis , the COVID-19 pandemic , and conflicts across the world are putting more and more people at peril of dearth and sickness .
