“Mama was sick with normal diseases she did not die of COVID-19,” a family spokesman Sheik Musa Ismail said, adding that she had tested negative for the disease. He said she had been ill for a week before being taken to the hospital. President Barack Obama had been informed of the death and has sent […]
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Family Matriarch Sarah Obama Dies In Kenyan Hospital At 99
March 29th, 2021 Awake Goy
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former U.S. President Barack Obama’s Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday. She was at least 99 years old. Mama Sarah, as the step-grandmother of the former U.S. president was fondly called, promoted education for girls and orphans in her rural Kogelo village. She […]
A most unlikely martyr: matriarch Hamda Zubeidat, killed in the night by stun grenades
December 29th, 2017 Awake Goy
JERICHO — The events that transpired on the night of December 12 were nothing short of a complete shock to the Palestinian residents of the village of al-Zubeidat, located just off a main road in the Jordan Valley area of the central occupied West Bank. At around 8 pm, dozens of Israeli soldiers and military […]