Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization talks to the media regarding the coronavirus COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. In an emotional statement at a press briefing on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022 WHO Director-General _ who is an Ethnic Tigrayan _ said the situation in his home country of Ethiopia, where 6 million people in Tigray have essentially been cut from the world, is worse than any other humanitarian crisis in the world. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)