‘An absurdity’: Experts slam WHO’s excusal of misconduct


              FILE - The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022. Two experts appointed by the World Health Organization to investigate allegations that some of its staffers sexually abused women during an Ebola outbreak in Congo have dismissed the U.N. agency’s own efforts to excuse its handling of such misconduct as “an absurdity.”  (Johanna Geron/Pool Photo via AP, File)
            
              FILE - Aichatou Mindaoudou Foreign Minister for Niger addresses the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. Two experts appointed by the World Health Organization to investigate allegations that some of its staffers sexually abused women during an Ebola outbreak in Congo have dismissed the U.N. agency’s own efforts to excuse its handling of such misconduct as “an absurdity.”  (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
            
              FILE - In this Anifa stands in her home in the eastern Congo town of Goma on Friday, March 5, 2021. Two experts appointed by the World Health Organization to investigate allegations that some of its staffers sexually abused women during an Ebola outbreak in Congo have dismissed the U.N. agency’s own efforts to excuse its handling of such misconduct as “an absurdity.” (AP Photo/Kudra Maliro, File)