Internal emails reveal WHO knew of sex abuse claims in Congo
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MARIA CHENG and AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO, Associated Press
May 12, 2021
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1of12Shekinah stands near her home in Beni, eastern Congo on Thursday, March 18, 2021. When she was working as a nurse’s aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said World Health Organization Dr. Boubacar Diallo, of Canada, offered her a job investigating Ebola cases at double her previous salary _ with a catch. "When he asked me to sleep with him, given the financial difficulties of my family….I accepted.”Kudra Maliro/APShow MoreShow Less
2of12Anifa holds her phone displaying a photo of former World Health Organization doctor Boubacar Diallo, of Canada, during an interview in the eastern Congo town of Goma on Friday, March 5, 2021. In 2019, Diallo met her when she was working in an Ebola treatment center in Beni, eastern Congo. She said Diallo told her: “How can a beautiful girl like you work here, testing people’s temperatures and washing their hands? That’s terrible.” She said he offered her another job at five times more than her current salary where “the conditions were very simple,” according to him. She rejected Diallo’s offer, saying that “if he hires me after sleeping with him...I would be a sex slave, not a WHO employee.” Diallo rejected those claims outright.Kudra Maliro/APShow MoreShow Less