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Nobel Winner Tutu Says No Longer an Oxfam Global Ambassador

by Associated Press

   JOHANNESBURG --

   Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu says he will no longer be a
   global ambassador for the UK-based aid organization Oxfam after
   allegations that senior staff members in crisis zones paid for sex
   among the desperate people the group was meant to serve.

   A statement from the office of the South African former archbishop says
   he is "is deeply disappointed by allegations of immorality and possible
   criminality."

   The 86-year-old Tutu rarely makes public statements because of health
   problems.

   Actress Minnie Driver and Senegalese musician Baaba Maal also have quit
   as celebrity ambassadors for Oxfam following its response to a sex
   abuse scandal in Haiti after its 2010 earthquake.