Mami Gebru

#Tigray

[ሚዘር ኣላ 'ኮ ✨ @MizerTigrewayti]

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Communities repeatedly called for:
✔ Peace
✔ Recovery
✔ Accountability
✔ Compensation
✔ Trustworthy governance

These are not political demands.

They are human demands.
#PeaceForTigray #TigrayRecovery
@ymahmoudali
@antonioguterres @volker_turk
https://t.co/UKsUIqvgsn…

[Tigrai Online @tigraionline]

Listen to Abiy Ahmed Ali’s testimony: without Eritrea and his other allies, the outcome of the 2020 war in Tigray would have been very different.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

As the #Ebola outbreak in the #DRC is spreading rapidly, @WHO is now revising our risk assessment to very high at the national level, high at the regional level, and low at the global level.

[Mengsteab Abraha Berihe @Mengsteab444]

Have a blessed Saturday. Tigray |Africa

[ሚዘር ኣላ 'ኮ ✨ @MizerTigrewayti]

“I hope I will get my land back at least. Food grown on our land is better than aid. If we can return to our home town, our children can work or go to school. I hope that this will be the best future for them.”

— Tsibqtey Teklay (#Tigray IDP)
@UN @UNICEF @UNHumanRights

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

For us, change is a constant, and we will continue to change – not for the sake of change, but for the sake of the countries and people we serve.

That is why we have chosen as the theme for this year’s World Health Assembly, “Reshaping global health: a shared responsibility”. #WHA79

[Wedi Abay Tigray (ዘፍፅ) @Fisseha_ka]

መዓዛ ግደይ : ካብ ዋዕሮታት ትግራይ ሓንቲ 'ያ።።
#ትግራይ 💛❤

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

We Walk the Talk for #HealthForAll to:

1. Promote health, physical activity and movement help everybody to stay healthy;
2. Advocate for health as a fundamental human right for everyone, everywhere.

Everyone who joined the challenge this morning — thank you for bringing the spirit of solidarity to the global health capital ahead of the #WHA79!

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

RTS,S #malaria vaccine has significantly averted child deaths in the first African countries to offer the vaccine.

While @WHO‑recommended malaria vaccines are now available in sufficient supply to meet demand, funding constraints continue to limit many countries’ abilities to scale up to national vaccination targets. Malaria vaccines are now available in 25 countries in Africa and wider impact is expected.

I call for the equitable access and financing of immunization programmes to protect children and save lives.

Read more about the impact of offering RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccines in child immunization in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi:
https://t.co/r0ZOc8wq9t

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Dear people of Tenerife,

Greetings from Geneva. It is Tedros again.

Our work in Tenerife is done. And it was done with grace.

Last Monday, I stood at the port of Granadilla de Abona and watched the last of the passengers from the MV Hondius board the vehicles that would carry them home. I watched health workers in protective equipment move with calm professionalism. I watched Spanish officials coordinate with quiet precision. And I watched and felt your support and solidarity.

And I thought of the letter I wrote to you just days ago, and how everything that your Spanish Government and the @WHO promised came to pass, exactly as described.

More than 120 people from 23 countries have safely disembarked and are now being cared for and monitored by public health professionals while in transit or upon arrival in their home countries. They arrived in fear and uncertainty. They left carrying something they could not have expected to find in Tenerife: the dignity of being cared for by strangers from your community, and people around the world, who chose to help. The risk assessment held. The protocols worked. The corridor held. Science and solidarity operated in coordination, as they must, as they can, when we trust each other.

But I do not want this moment to be remembered only as a logistical success. What happened here in Tenerife was something rarer than competence. It was moral courage, the willingness of an entire island, an entire nation, to say: these are human beings, and we will not turn away from them.

The government of Prime Minister @sanchezcastejon honoured its obligations under international law and then went beyond them, with warmth, speed and care. Ministers @Monica_Garcia_G, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and @avtorresp led with great commitment. The port authorities of Granadilla executed a complex operation flawlessly. The health teams who boarded that ship, who stood at the port gates, who rode in those vehicles: they did their jobs not because it was easy, but because it was right.

To Captain Jan Dobrogowski and his 26-member crew still onboard of the MV Hondius and sailing now to the Netherlands: you held your passengers together through weeks of grief and confinement. History will not forget that.

To you, the people of Tenerife, who opened your island not with applause or fanfare but with quiet, steady acceptance: I want you to know what that means to the world. You may never meet the passengers and crew who transited your port. But those 150 people and their families know that somewhere in the Atlantic, there was an island community that said “yes.” That community was you.

We live in a time when it is easy to close doors, to turn inward, to let fear harden into hostility. Tenerife chose differently. You have written something into the record of how humanity responds to crisis, and the WHO will carry that record forward.

Three people died aboard the Hondius. Their families are grieving. The conclusion of this operation does not erase that grief, and I do not want it to. Behind every public health response there are real lives, real losses and real families who will carry this forever.

We also learned of the loss of a member of the @guardiacivil of Tenerife, who died of a heart attack while serving during this operation. He was here because of duty and commitment to his community. I extend my deepest condolences to his family, his colleagues, and to the entire Guardia Civil. His service will not be forgotten.

The best immunity we have is solidarity. Tenerife has proven this, not as a slogan, but as a way to work, and to live.

I will confess something personal. Last Monday, before the last group of passengers departed, I walked through part of your city, alone. The island was going about its day, and I found Tenerife to be genuinely beautiful: the place, yes, but above all the people. The warmth I encountered from some people who recognised me, even in the briefest exchanges, stayed with me.

I wish I had come under different circumstances, on a WHO conference perhaps, or better still, simply with my family to rest. That is a wish I intend to honour. I look forward to returning to Tenerife as a visitor, not as a crisis responder, to see it the way it deserves to be seen, slowly and without urgency, with my family beside me.

On behalf of the World Health Organization, on behalf of the passengers now home, and on behalf of those families around the world who watched this island with hope: thank you. From the depth of my heart, thank you.

I also want to thank my colleagues from WHO headquarters and from our Regional Office @WHO_Europe in Copenhagen, who stood with me in Tenerife, and those who supported us tirelessly from afar. This was a team effort in every sense of the word.

But for us, the job is not yet done, until every passenger and crew is out of quarantine and reunited with their loved ones.

With profound respect, admiration and gratitude,
Tedros

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

A tribute of appreciation from a passenger repatriated in #Tenerife, #Spain, from the hantavirus-affected Hondius. I can only imagine the sigh of relief. Thank you, Spain.

[Mehari Taddele Maru @DrMehari]

Saudi Arabia: Halt Imminent Executions of Ethiopian Migrants https://t.co/MtCKeuyfbW

[Tigrai Online @tigraionline]

The EU talks human rights, yet normalizes ties with Ethiopia while accountability for atrocities in Tigray, & the rest of Ethiopia remains absent. Geopolitics shouldn’t outweigh justice. Without enforceable human rights, this isn’t diplomacy it’s complicity. #EU #Tigrai #Ethiopia

[ሚዘር ኣላ 'ኮ ✨ @MizerTigrewayti]

2000 days of Tigray genocide.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Absolutely phenomenal. @kaluputics

[Aksum UniversityComprehensive Specialized Hospital @AksumHospi4940]

A patient arrives at a hospital on a donkey, accompanied by family members, due to a severe fuel shortage in Tigray. People are forced to rely on traditional means, delaying care & increasing suffering.

We urgently request fuel.
Let us act now to save lives & reduce suffering.

[Mengsteab Abraha Berihe @Mengsteab444]

The numbers are staggering:
🔹️800,000 dead
🔹️140,000 women raped
🔹️ 4.6M at risk of starvation
🔹️70,000 Tigray|an refugees in Sudan
🔹️2.4M IDPs in tent camps
Tigray is facing genocide. We need accountability, humanitarian access, and global attention now.

[Gebremichael Negash @Mickey86766]

Thousands of IDPs are fighting for the basics: food, water, and safety.

​Silence costs lives. Speak up.

​#IDPs #Tigray #StandForHumanity #Sheraro

[ሚዘር ኣላ 'ኮ ✨ @MizerTigrewayti]

When will the humanitarian suffering of the people of Tigray end?

Over 2.3 million IDPs have been living in tent camps in Tigray for over 5 years and counting.

No justice, no peace ! #Tigray #Tigryans #Justice4Tigray
@UN @UNICEF @hrw @UNHumanRights @LaetitiaBader @antoniogut

[Mehari Taddele Maru @DrMehari]

Ethiopia: Persecution of Tigrayans Unrelenting https://t.co/Rme5KllK5J