People’s diva’ Aretha Franklin’s sons battle over handwritten wills five years after her death
The dispute is pitting a son against other sons. Ted White II believes papers dated in 2010 should mainly control the estate, while Kecalf Franklin and Edward Franklin favour a 2014 document. Both were discovered in Franklin’s suburban Detroit home, months after her death from pancreatic cancer in 2018 at age 76.
A mayor in Georgia State in US, Khalid Kamau, faces burglary and criminal trespassing charges
City Council member Natasha Williams-Brown, the mayor pro tem, will replace Kamau as acting mayor, WXIA reported. She told the station that the city will continue to function as usual as she takes over mayoral duties.
3,000 more AU troops get ready to leave Somalia as national army replaces them from September
On hand last week in the East African country was a high-level African Union (AU) delegation to evaluate the first troop withdrawal, called a “drawdown” by the East African Community (EAC). That saw 2 000 troops exit the FOBs Xaaji Cali, Mirtiquo, Cadale, Albao, Gherille and Al Jazeera 1. SSF were “gifted” generators, water treatment plants and solar panels among others at the FOBs.
World’s war on greenhouse gas emissions has a military blind spot, now spotlighted by Ukraine conflict
The US military’s oil use and emissions are falling. The US Defence Logistics Agency, which oversees oil buying, said 84 million barrels were purchased in 2022, down almost 15 million from 2018. Emissions in 2022, meanwhile, fell to 48 million tonnes from 51 million tonnes the previous year.
Kremlin says Russian President Putin met with Wagner boss Prigozhin days after abortive mutiny
The confirmation of a face-to-face meeting with Putin, who has branded Prigozhin as a backstabbing traitor, adds a new twist to the uncertainty surrounding the mercenary chief. His fate and whereabouts have been unknown since the abortive mutiny, which severely weakened Putin’s authority.
Sociology of Uganda’s elites: Why pursue intellectual excellence when you can do barter trade with politics?
Any Ugandan elites who are not connected to the president and State House politically, economically, socially and financially are inconsequential. Such elites include the political elites in the Opposition to the ruling political party, the National Resistance Movement Organisation (NRNO).
Sociology of Uganda’s elites: President’s pork-barrel politics ensures scholars are beholden to him
One distinguishing feature of our elites is that they are greedy and selfish and believe only today and now matters. They are not so futuristic in their thinking; meaning that they do not factor future generations in their equation and are more oriented towards exploiting goods and services, conquering nature and the anti-conservation attitude is almost universally developed amongst them as is the attitude that they are modern.
Caught between a rock and a hard place, Nigerians in northeast live perpetual in fear of Boko Haram insurgents, military
In more than 30 interviews in the northeastern town of Bama in late 2022, men and women described the depopulation of the countryside by military “clearance” operations that they said had torched their villages, destroyed food supplies and killed those unable to flee.
White dominated Texas Court of Appeal on receiving end for upholding loopholed evidence in murder trial
Reed’s attorneys challenged the ruling before the Texas Court of Appeal (CCA), arguing that Langley had abdicated his responsibility to make independent determinations about witness credibility by simply adopting the state’s proposed conclusions, which were rife with errors and factual misrepresentations about various testimony, including Hugen’s.
While evidence exonerates suspect, Texas court is sending Blackman Rodney Reed to gallows in bizarre murder trial
Reed, who is Black, was sentenced to death for the 1996 rape and murder of 19-year-old Stites, who was white. Her body was found on the side of a country road just outside Bastrop, Texas. Sperm recovered from Stites’s body was eventually matched to Reed, which prosecutors called the “Cinderella’s slipper” linking Reed to her death. But Reed insisted he was innocent; he said he’d been having an affair with Stites, who was engaged to a white police officer named Jimmy Fennell.
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