AFRICANGLOBE – Hours before a fire swept through their bedroom, killing their younger sister and cousin, the two boys who survived had been watching Batman cartoons, they said in an interview. When the blaze broke out at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday in their West Englewood home, Darnell, 7, and Marquis, 4, managed to run out a back door with the help of their aunt, they said.
AFRICANGLOBE – Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s 94-year-old former president, is “looking much better” after being treated for a lung infection and gallstones, but will remain in hospital for the time being, the government said on Tuesday. The country’s first Black president was admitted to a Tshwane hospital on December 8 after being flown from his home village of Qunu in a remote part of the Eastern Cape province.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – Kenya’s coastal town of Watamu has been named one of the six “world’s best places to buy a home” by global property services firm Knight Frank. In an article first published in Forbes magazine on November 23, Watamu was ranked sixth after Muscat in Oman, London in UK, Cyprus – an island country, [...]
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – Before Brad Pitt was a household name, he was an unwelcome guest in the home of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. In a recent interview, Tyson admitted to walking in on Pitt having sex with his ex-wife Robin Givens in 1988. At the time, Pitt was working TV guest spots, and had [...]
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – Recently, while I was on vacation, our daughter took our dog, Cali, for a play date with her four canines, two of which are wild animals. I asked if she planned to bring our dog back home before she went to work the next day, and she sighed heavily. That is usually a [...]
Continue reading …Attorney for Jordan Davis’ Killer Disputes Similarities To Trayvon Martin Case The attorney for the Florida man who killed an unarmed Black teenager after claiming to have felt threatened says the incident bears no resemblance to the Trayvon Martin Case that riveted the nation earlier this year. Robin Lemonidis insisted Thursday that her client, Michael [...]
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – A diplomat for the region and an autocrat on the home front, President Yoweri Museveni seeks to burnish Uganda’s regional diplomatic credentials and carve out a larger role in East Africa. As Uganda turns 50, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will have been in power for close to 27 years. To most in Uganda, [...]
Continue reading …Kwame Kilpatrick, who once vowed he would never give up on Detroit, says he is cutting ties with the Motor City and will never live there again, according to his e-mails. The e-mails were provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections, which has been monitoring Kilpatrick’s parole status resulting from a probation violation on felony [...]
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