WHO's Tedros under donor pressure to act quickly on Congo sex scandal - diplomats


FILE PHOTO: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference after a ceremony for the opening of the WHO Academy, in Lyon, France, September 27, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization is coming under U.S.-led pressure to act quickly on a damning report on a sexual assault scandal that has engulfed it and other aid agencies in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Western diplomats say.

More than 80 aid workers, a quarter of whom were employed by the WHO, were involved in sexual abuse and exploitation during an Ebola epidemic in eastern Congo, an independent commission said on Tuesday.

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