{"id":1616268,"date":"2022-08-19T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616268"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:10:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:10:31","slug":"who-chief-racism-is-why-tigray-crisis-isnt-getting-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-chief-racism-is-why-tigray-crisis-isnt-getting-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Chief: Racism is why Tigray crisis isn\u2019t getting attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-racism-is-why-tigray-crisis-isnt-getting-attention%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=1616268&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--><div id=\"attachment_2739524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2739524\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2739524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/TIGRAY.jpeg\" alt=\"FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The European Union is calling for an independent evaluation of the World Health Organization\u2019s response to the coronavirus pandemic, \u201cto review experience gained and lessons learned.\u201d (Salvatore Di Nolfi\/Keystone via AP, File)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2739524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi\/Keystone via AP, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:54 AM PT \u2013 Friday, August 19, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>The Director of the World Health Organization suggests racism is behind a lack of attention paid to the war raging in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region. In a recent press conference, the United Nation\u2019s agency director general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called the Tigray conflict \u201cthe worst humanitarian crisis in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cBut in terms of humanitarian crisis, I can tell you that the humanitarian crisis is Tigray is more than Ukraine, without any exaggeration,\u201d asserted Ghebreyesus. \u201cAnd I said it many months ago, maybe the reason is the color of the skin of the people in Tigray.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WHO<\/a> Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrTedros?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrTedros<\/a> suggested that racism was to blame for the lack of attention to the crisis in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethiopia?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethiopia<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tigray?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tigray<\/a> region. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SfxfgVlMUS\">pic.twitter.com\/SfxfgVlMUS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VOA Africa (@VOAAfrica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VOAAfrica\/status\/1560021548924387334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The region fell under siege in late 2020 and the organization requested $123 million to address the problems. Meanwhile, his comments were viewed as unethical and many critics said he should recuse himself from his position. Ghebreyesus is an ethnic Tigrayan who has previously brought attention to equality based on race, once asking whether \u201cthe world really gives equal attention to black and white lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/cnn-brian-stelter-is-out-reliable-sources-show-canceled\/\">CNN: Brian Stelter Is Out, \u2018Reliable Sources\u2019 Show Canceled<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 In this Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi\/Keystone via AP, File) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 6:54 AM PT \u2013 Friday, August 19, 2022 The Director of the World &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}