The matriarch of former US president Barack Obama’s Kenyan family has died, relatives have confirmed.
Sarah Obama was Mr Obama’s step-grandmother and was being treated in hospital in Kisumu, Kenya‘s third largest city, when she passed away. She was at least 99 years old.
She was the second wife of Mr Obama’s grandfather and helped to raise his father, Barack Obama Sr.
Mr Obama meets his step-grandmother at his father’s house in Kogelo village, western Kenya in 2006. Pic: AP
Mama Sarah, as she was…
