The president of the United States, Donald Trump has threatened to pull the United States funding from the World Health Organization (WHO).
President Trump completely dismissed the organization warning saying the WHO also said that the situation will be “Just fine” despite the multiple alerts that were sent out earlier in the year by the World Health Organization. Now, President Trump is claiming that the World Health Organization has failed in its duty to protect the world from the pandemic.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke out regarding President Trump’s threat. He said that it’s about the “National Unity” and he understood how difficult it was for politicians because he was once one and at the end of the day, the people belonged to all political parties.
The focus of all political parties should be to save their people and the politicians need to stop politicizing the COVID 19 pandemic, he stated. Moussa Faki Mahamat, the chairperson of the African Union (AU) post a tweet saying he was surprised to learn about the US government threat against the WHO and that the African Union was in full support of the WHO and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Sahle – Work Zawole, the president of Ethiopia replied on Twitter that their global priority is to save lives and Dr Tedros is an effective leader of the WHO and the world is at the time the organization is needed the most.
Hage G. Geingob, the president of Namibia also posted on Twitter saying he fully agreed with Moussa Faki Mahamat on his view of the situation.
Other African leaders who backed the WHO include Cyril Rhamaphosa, the president of South Africa, Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria who said that the Nigerian government was in full support of the WHO and Dr Tedros
