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Obama's half-brother George lives on less than $12 a year



24 September 2008 @ 03:39 pm ET

George Onyango Obama, the half-brother of Senator Barack Obama, lives in a hut outside Nairobi and survives on a mere $12 a year and says he is "ashamed" when people find out he is Obama's half-brother.


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George Hussein Onyango Obama, Senator Barack Obama`s long lost brother was tracked down living in a hut on the outskirts of Nairobi (Vanity Fair Italy / AP Photo)
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Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life to the Italian edition of Vanity Fair.

Barack and George are both born of the same father, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael.

"No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month."

Embarrassed by his living conditions, he said that he does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.

"If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed," he said.

Obama in his acceptance speech in Denver says, "I am my brother's keeper." However, he hasn't offered to help his own brother.

Barack mentions his brother in his memoir, "Dreams for my Father," in just one passing paragraph as a "beautiful boy with a rounded head."

The Democratic presidential candidate also described the moment he met George and the rest of his family he had never known, as a "painful affair."

Of their second meeting in 2006, George Obama said: "It was very brief; we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger."

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