South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has called the World Health Organization (WHO) and its head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “exceptional” after they were criticised by US President Donald Trump.
Mr Trump tweeted on Tuesday that the WHO was “very China-centric” yet it is “largely” funded by the US.
He warned that he could stop funding the global health organisation.
Mr Ramaphosa tweeted that the leadership of Dr Tedros, who is from Ethiopia, during the Covid-19 pandemic was “incalculable”:
Earlier, AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat had defended the WHO chief, a position that was backed by Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Namibia’s President Hage Geingob.
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