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Malik Obama

Obama's half-brother runs for office in Kenya

Jason Straziuso, Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A politician named Obama who is running for governor in Kenya can boast of one big claim to fame on the campaign trail: blood relations with the president of the United States...
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Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, waves her walking cane towards supporters in celebration before speaking to the media about her reaction to Obama's re-election in the U.S. presidential election in the garden of her house in the village of Kogelo, western Kenya, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Obama to Kenya: Reject violence during election

Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - United States President Barack Obama is urging citizens in his father's homeland of Kenya to reject intimidation and violence in next month's national elections...
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In this Saturday, July 11, 2009 file photo, women wearing traditional dresses bearing the image of President Barack Obama chant his name after he addressed the Ghanaian Parliament in Accra, Ghana. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama visit to Kenya? Only 1 day in Africa so far

Jason Straziuso, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - President Barack Obama promised to visit his father's homeland — Kenya — before the end of his presidency, but of the 51 country visits Obama made the last four years, America's first black president spent less than a day in sub-Saharan Africa...
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Malik Obama, a step brother to then Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, talks with the aid of a bulhorn November 2, 2008 to villagers at Kogelo (TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)

Obama's half brother running for office in Kenya

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theGRIO REPORT - Another Obama is getting into electoral politics, and no, it's not Michelle Obama...
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In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, Margaret Anyoso, 35, speaks to The Associated Press In Nairobi, Kenya. The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he's accused of: detaining mothers who can't pay their bills. Lazarus Omondi says it's the only way he can keep his medical center running. Anyoso and another mother told The Associated Press that Pumwani wouldn't let them leave after delivering their babies. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

Kenya hospital imprisons new mothers with no money

Jason Straziuso, Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he's accused of: detaining mothers who can't pay their bills...
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Attorney Scott Bratton, left, and client, Onyango Obama, President Barack Obama's uncle, were trailed by media members following a pre-trial hearing at Framingham District Court, Thursday, Nov. 17 2011. (Photo by Wendy Maeda/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Obama uncle wins new deportation hearing

Rodrique Ngowi, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's uncle in Massachusetts is getting a new deportation hearing...
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Kenya Moore

'Housewives' star Kenya Moore planning show similar to 'Top Model'

Chris Witherspoon
theGRIO REPORT - During an interview with theGrio, former Miss USA and 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' star Kenya Moore revealed her plans to develop a show similar to 'America's Next Top Model' ...
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Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, waves her walking cane towards supporters in celebration before speaking to the media about her reaction to Obama's re-election in the U.S. presidential election in the garden of her house in the village of Kogelo, western Kenya, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Granny Obama, Kenya celebrate White House win

Josphat Kasire and Tom Odula, Associated Press
KOGELO, Kenya (AP) - Waving her walking cane and smiling broadly, the step-grandmother of Barack Obama celebrated Wednesday as this tiny Western Kenyan village danced and rejoiced after the United States president won four more years in the White House...
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Kenyan witch-doctor John Dimo, who claims to be 105 years old, interprets the result after throwing shells, bones, and other magic items to predict the outcome of the U.S. election, in front of his hut in the village of Kogelo, from where President Barack Obama's late father came and whom Dimo claims he knew, in western Kenya Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Obama favored in his ancestral Kenyan village

Associated Press
KOGELO, Kenya (AP) - Here in President Barack Obama's ancestral village in Kenya, witch doctor John Dimo tossed some shells, bones and other items to determine who will win Tuesday's election...
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President Barack Obama talks with Jay Leno, right, during a commercial break during the taping of his appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in Burbank, Calif. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama talks Trump, debates, baseball with Leno

Ben Feller, Associated Press
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - What's real estate mogul Donald Trump got against President Barack Obama? The president says it's an old grudge that goes back — way, way back — to their childhood days in Kenya...
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