Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a WHO briefing that he was informed last Saturday that his uncle was killed by Eritrean troops in Ethiopia. 'I spoke to my mother, and she was really devastated. Because he was the youngest from their family and he was almost same age with me, young uncle,' he said on Wednesday. The WHO director-general added that he hadn't been in 'good shape' because of the news, and expressed hope that a tentative peace agreement between Ethiopia and the TPLF, which have been at war in northern Ethiopia since November 2020, will hold. 
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says uncle murdered in Ethiopia