{"id":1491195,"date":"2022-05-25T08:15:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491195"},"modified":"2022-05-25T08:15:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:15:44","slug":"who-chief-gifted-another-five-year-term-unopposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-chief-gifted-another-five-year-term-unopposed\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Chief Gifted Another Five-Year Term Unopposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwho-chief-gifted-another-five-year-term-unopposed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491195&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is guaranteed a second five-year term Tuesday when he stands for reelection in an unopposed ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old former Ethiopian minister of health and foreign affairs will be rewarded by attendees at the W.H.O.\u2019s main annual assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, in a flat rejection of any attempt to reform the U.N. subsidiary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>His first term was marked by stumbling to address the coronavirus pandemic while deferring to China alongside a long line of other crises, including a sexual abuse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/wires\/ap\/article-10848841\/WHO-chief-confirmed-2nd-term-no-opposition.html\">scandal<\/a> involving W.H.O. staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo and wider allegations of mismanagement across the globalist institution.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists drafted by W.H.O. to investigate the coronavirus\u00b4 origins in Wuhan, China, admitted the critical probe was \u201d stalled \u201d last year, after issuing a report even Tedros acknowledged had prematurely ruled out the possibility of a laboratory leak.<\/p>\n<p>Such has been his questionable performance, at one stage a global petition calling for Tedros to resign went close one million signatures.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>It was roundly ignored by W.H.O. bureaucrats who operate like their leader inside a culture of absolute impunity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: A petition calling for the resignation of World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is nearing one million signatures. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/INFaBju21O\">https:\/\/t.co\/INFaBju21O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1249370779134898186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With President Joe Biden\u2019s arrival in the White House, Tedros has enjoyed broad support in Washington which has helped shield him from further criticism.<\/p>\n<p>This backing is in stark contrast to Biden\u2019s predecessor Donald Trump who began pulling the United States out of the W.H.O. after excoriating it for being Beijing\u2019s puppet and helping cover up the initial Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch: President Donald Trump withdraws the U.S. from the W.H.O.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\">White House<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/10\/5-shocking-facts-about-who-chief-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus\/\">reported<\/a>, there is no shortage of criticism from the world outside the W.H.O. for Tedros and his work.<\/p>\n<p>Critics point to the fact he is not a medical doctor and is a member of a Marxist-Leninist Ethiopian political party that analysts have listed as a perpetrator of terrorism.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As a\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/5655\/ethiopias-old-guard-hangs-on-as-new-guard-rises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">member<\/a>\u00a0of the violent and powerful communist Ethiopian political party known as the Tigrayan People\u2019s Liberation Front (<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/erol\/ethiopia\/tplf-ml.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">TPLF<\/a>), Tedros\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/world-health-coronavirus-disinformation-11586122093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">rose<\/a>\u00a0through Ethiopia\u2019s autocratic regime to reign as health (2005-2012) and foreign minister (2012-2016).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13131017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/04\/tedros-Xi-appeal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Tedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization, (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on January 28, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Naohiko Hatta \u2013 Pool\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Analysts,\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/who-chief-tedros-questionable-past-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reportedly<\/a>\u00a0including\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopianregistrar.com\/tedros-adhanom-played-key-role-kidnapping-prominent-dissident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">American<\/a>\u00a0government officials, have\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.start.umd.edu\/gtd\/search\/Results.aspx?perpetrator=2127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">listed<\/a>\u00a0the TPLF in the Global Terrorism Database.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2017, Tedros named Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe a \u201cgoodwill ambassador\u201d to help combat non-communicable diseases in Africa, provoking\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2017\/10\/24\/tedros-adhanom-facing-calls-resign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">outrage<\/a>\u00a0from medical professionals and human rights groups.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>At the time\u00a0the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/21\/world\/africa\/robert-mugabe-goodwill-ambassador-who.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The role of good-will ambassador is largely symbolic, but rights groups were scathing in their reaction to the symbolism of giving it to a man whose leadership, they say, has led to the collapse of its health service and major rights abuses in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ultimately, Tedros\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/22-10-2017-director-general-rescinds-goodwill-ambassador-appointment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">rescinded<\/a>\u00a0his decision to name Mugabe \u201cgoodwill ambassador\u201d in the wake of criticism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">WOW. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wMjjXqJg6a\">https:\/\/t.co\/wMjjXqJg6a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1248940283917565952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Seventy-fifth\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/about\/governance\/world-health-assembly\/seventy-fifth-world-health-assembly\">World Health Assembly<\/a>\u00a0is currently being held in Geneva, Switzerland, and ends Saturday. This is\u00a0the decision-making body of W.H.O. comprised of representatives of 194 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The biennial W.H.O. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/about\/accountability\/budget\">budget<\/a> for 2022-2023 has been set at $6.12 billion (a five percent increase from the $5.84 billion budgeted for the previous biennium, 2020-2021).<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is guaranteed a second five-year term Tuesday when he stands for reelection in an unopposed ballot. 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