‘Loophole’ excuses WHO officials accused of misconduct


              FILE -  This image provided by Dr. Jean-Paul Ngandu shows an April 29, 2019 contract between him and a Congolese woman he allegedly impregnated. The notarized document contains the signatures of two World Health Organization staff members, including a manager, as witnesses to the agreement. Ngandu promised to pay her a monthly stipend, cover the woman's pregnancy-related health costs and to buy her a plot of land. A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization staffers in how they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response didn't violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.”  The report was submitted to WHO last month and wasn't released publicly. (Courtesy Dr. Jean-Paul Ngandu via AP, File)
            
              FILE -  This image provided by Dr. Jean-Paul Ngandu shows an April 29, 2019 contract between him and a Congolese woman he allegedly impregnated. The notarized document contains the signatures of two World Health Organization staff members, including a manager, as witnesses to the agreement. Ngandu promised to pay her a monthly stipend, cover the woman's pregnancy-related health costs and to buy her a plot of land. A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization staffers in how they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response didn't violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.”  The report was submitted to WHO last month and wasn't released publicly. (Courtesy Dr. Jean-Paul Ngandu via AP, File)
            
              FILE -  This image provided by Dr. Jean-Paul Ngandu shows an April 29, 2019 contract between him and a Congolese woman he allegedly impregnated. The notarized document contains the signatures of two World Health Organization staff members, including a manager, as witnesses to the agreement. Ngandu promised to pay her a monthly stipend, cover the woman's pregnancy-related health costs and to buy her a plot of land. A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization staffers in how they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response didn't violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.”  The report was submitted to WHO last month and wasn't released publicly. (Courtesy Dr. Jean-Paul Ngandu via AP, File)
            
              FILE - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), gestures as he speaks to journalists during a press conference, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization staffers in how they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response didn't violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.”  The report was submitted to WHO last month and wasn't released publicly. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)
            
              FILE - Reby hangs laundry outside her home in Beni, eastern Congo, on Saturday, May 1, 2021, who met WHO Dr Boubacar Diallo, of Canada in 2019, when he came into a mobile phone shop where she was working. A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization staffers in how they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response didn't violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.”  The report was submitted to WHO last month and wasn't released publicly. (AP Photo/Kudra Maliro, File)
            
              FILE - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, speaks during a news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Dec. 14, 2022. A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization in the way they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response did not violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.” The report, which was submitted to WHO Director-General Ghebreyesus on Jan. 2023, and was not released publicly, was obtained by the Associated Press. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)
            
              FILE - Residents wait in line to receive the Ebola vaccine in Beni, Congo DRC on July 13, 2019. A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization in the way they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response did not violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.”  The report, which was submitted to the WHO Director-General on Jan. 2023, and was not released publicly, was obtained by the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
‘Loophole’ excuses WHO officials accused of misconduct