Jerry Douglas' Blog

Superstar Janet Jackson is reportedly quitting the entertainment industry and is going to leave the country to become a Muslim. Rob Shuter tells reporters that Jackson is moving to the Middle East and is converting to Islam. Shuter says that since she married billionaire Wissam Al Mana, she has tired of the grueling entertainment industry. The pair got married last year in a very private ceremony, according to Shuter, and they want to live a private life away from the paparazzi. Al Mana, a Qatar native, is involved in his family's controlled Middle-East-based Al Mana Retail Group. This is Jackson's third marriage. It should be noted that since her breast was exposed at the super bowl she hasnt been able to redeem her career and it has been downhill for her music and tv shows ever since

Since 2005, 10 African leaders have died of natural causes while serving as Heads of State. 2012 alone saw the deaths of four sitting African presidents. These deaths can create instability in their respective countries and regions, while nations are often thrown into a period of mourning. There are a number of theories about why African leaders are dying in office with such frequency; however most of them have their critics. The more pertinent fact is that most of the leaders we looked at were treated in (and in many cases spent their final moments in) hospitals outside their homeland. This is a stinging indictment of healthcare on the continent and one wonders if many of these leaders would still be at the helm if they had access to better healthcare sooner. Where leaders died in office there was usually a period of national mourning and a fittingly grand state funeral. The most recent deaths of sitting African leaders have been followed by relatively peaceful transfers of power