Following the runaway success of popular US sicom Will & Grace, it appears that US television is coming out of the closet and is embracing more gay-themed content on the box these days. The creators of the hit series tell Matt Wells about the show’s inspiration.
”My Life is not a great book, in places it’s not even that good — but when you read it, you can’t help but feel you’re in the company, one on one, of the man himself. It’s his voice you hear on the page, for good and sometimes ill.” Jonathan Freedland reviews Bill Cinton’s autobiography.
The old sporting cliché that nice guys come second is about to be rigorously tested in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday if Jean-Pierre Bemba is named as the man in that position when the country’s election results are announced. How nice he will be depends on whether he has another crack at the incumbent president, Joseph Kabila.
The Dutch government on Friday pledged €5-million (,4-million) in aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to improve health care and help people displaced by years of war return to their homes. About 1 200 people die each day in the DRC, Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation Agnes van Ardenne said in announcing the aid.
I cannot recall a time when disputes in the alliance over policy and politics have generated as much heat as they have in the past few weeks. No doubt uncertainties about succession play a part, as well as anticipation of serious debate over economic policy at the national policy conference later this year, but there is more to it than that.
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Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states need to contribute more to the regional body’s budget, outgoing SADC chairperson Festus Mogae said on Thursday. The SADC, as a regional organisation, still has difficulties implementing any of its targeted development programmes, he said at a summit meeting in Maseru.
Lebanese troops deployed in south Lebanon on Thursday, linking up with United Nations peacekeepers to take control of Hezbollah strongholds as Israeli forces pulled back after their 34-day war with the guerrillas. Hezbollah fighters melted away as the troops crossed the Litani River, about 20km from the Israeli border, to take over a region the army has not controlled for decades.
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang should resign over her lack of leadership on HIV/Aids, the Aids Law Project told a conference in Toronto, Canada, on Thursday. ”I believe our minister of health should resign,” head of the project Mark Heywood said to shouts of approval from a packed session room at the International Aids Conference.