World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.

(Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens.

The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on health care workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Some 70 people have been killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered the figure in a post on the social platform X.

The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.

The Trump administration plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization has triggered a hiring freeze, suspended investments and a travel reduction within the organization.

GENEVA/LONDON -- The World Health Organization will cut costs and review which health programmes to prioritise after President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO, the agency's chief told staff in an internal memo seen by Reuters.

Tanzanian President Samia Sululu Hassan confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus after its health ministry had previously denied the spread.

Donald Trump signed an executive order beginning the process of withdrawing America from the World Health Organisation

The World Health Organization is freezing recruitment and slashing travel in response to the withdrawal of the U.S., its biggest funder, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO.

Some 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said on Sunday (January 26, 2025), part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days.