South Africa's political landscape is still settling after the African National Congress's rush to form a government of national unity after failing to win a parliamentary majority in last month's election. Party leader Cyril Ramaphosa has been reelected as the country's president, but the ANC is still announcing new partners. The collective that it's cobbled together so far represents 273 seats in the National Assembly. However, Jacob Zuma's MK party has said it will join an alliance with the opposition.
Also, Ghana risks losing millions-worth of essential drugs from the Global Fund if the country fails to pay for the clearance of several cargoes of already donated drugs stuck at its ports.
Finally, during the war in Tigray, more than 120,000 women were raped, according to Tigrayan hospitals. Many of these survivors experienced the horror of gang rape and genital mutilation, and some were reduced to sexual slavery by Eritrean and Ethiopian troops. Rejected by their families, they need specific physical and psychological medical care due to the many pathologies they suffer from as a result of their aggression. But resources are lacking. In Tigray, 70 percent of medical facilities were destroyed during the war. Health professionals now fear an AIDS epidemic, as our team reports.
