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‘Humbled and heartbroken’: WHO finds its Ebola staff abused women and girls

Inquiry commissioned by WHO details sexual abuse, including rape allegations, during DRC outbreak

Scores of women and girls were sexually abused by aid workers during the devastating 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an independent inquiry commissioned by the World Health Organization has found.

The findings were described as “harrowing reading” by the WHO’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while its regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, said she was “humbled, horrified and heartbroken”.

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