London | World Health Organisation boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has won a second five-year stint as director-general, putting to bed a turbulent first term during which then US president Donald Trump lambasted him for cosying up to China over COVID-19.
Dr Tedros, a former Ethiopian health and foreign minister, was elected unopposed on Tuesday by the World Health Assembly (WHA), the 194-country annual summit that governs the WHO’s work.
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