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Offline TomSea

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World Health Organization strips Mugabe of goodwill ambassador role
« on: October 22, 2017, 01:55:34 pm »
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World Health Organization strips Mugabe of goodwill ambassador role
Our Foreign Staff 22 October 2017 • 1:23pm

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been removed as goodwill ambassador by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The UN's healthcare branch announced that it had reversed its decision on Sunday following outrage among donors, governments and human rights groups at his appointment.

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who made the appointment at a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases in Uruguay, said in a statement that he had listened to those expressing concerns.

Read more at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/22/world-health-organisation-strips-mugabe-goodwill-ambassador/

How could they have appointed the dictator in the first place?
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Re: World Health Organization strips Mugabe of goodwill ambassador role
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2017, 02:06:20 pm »
WHO?
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Re: World Health Organization strips Mugabe of goodwill ambassador role
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2017, 10:44:14 pm »
TomSea wonders:
"How could they have appointed the dictator in the first place?"

It's the UN.
What else would you expect?

US out of the UN!
UN out of the US!
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