South Africa’s new unity government is beginning to take shape, with members of parliament expected to re-elect African National Congress leader Cyril Ramaphosa as president on Friday. The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, reports global forced displacement surged to historic heights last year driven by conflict, persecution, human rights violations, climate crisis and other disturbing events. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was in Chad recently, one of the last countries Moscow is trying to ally with in the Sahel region, which not long ago was France’s sphere of influence.
