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Wed, 22 Oct 2008 Kenya

Obama's brother lives in a Kenyan Shack

By russiatoday.com
AFP Photo / Joe RaedleAFP Photo / Joe Raedle

http://www.russiatoday.com/features/news/29288?gclid=CJezsqO_upYCFQWB1AodXFikKw

U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama's lost brother has been tracked down in Kenya. George Hussein Onyango Obama, aged 26, was found by journalists from the Italian edition of Vanity Fair. He reportedly lives in poverty in a shack on the outskirts of Nairobi.

He has the same father as the U.S. senator, Barack Hussein Obama, but a different mother. Her name has been given as Jael.

The youngest of Obama's half-brothers says he lives on less than a dollar per month in a 2m x 3m shack. Its walls are decorated with posters of famous footballers and a calendar featuring exotic beaches. The magazine also noted George has a newspaper picture of his brother.

He has only met his famous brother twice. Once when he was five and then in 2006 when Senator Obama visited Nairobi. George admits their meeting was very brief and cool.

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Comments

Obaa Boatemaa | 10/23/2008 8:59:00 PM

Such a thing , if the journalist who obtained this piece of news wanted to help the poor African, could have gone through Obama`s priest to solicit help for the poor man. As it is, the journalist appears to be someone who wants to embarass Barack and that is not fine after all Barack did not inherit his late father.

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