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WHO Chief Selects Zimbabwe's Mugabe as 'Goodwill Ambassador'
GENEVA
- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has long faced United States
sanctions over his government's human rights abuses. But the World
Health Organization's new chief is making the longtime African leader a
"goodwill ambassador." With Mugabe on hand, WHO director-general Tedros
Ghebreyesus told a conference in Uruguay this week on non-communicable
diseases that he'd agreed to be a "goodwill ambassador" on the issue.
Tedros, an Ethiopian who became WHO's first African director-general
this year, said Mugabe could use the role "to influence his peers in his
region." A WHO spokeswoman confirmed the comments to The Associated
Press on Friday. In his speech, Tedros described Zimbabwe as "a country
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