President Obama meets with half-brother in China

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Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, the half-brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, lives in southern China.


BEIJING - U.S. President Barack Obama took time out of his busy diplomatic schedule in China to meet with his half-brother, who lives in the southern part of the country — but only for five minutes.

Obama had the brief meeting with Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, who had the same, late, father as the U.S. president, on Monday evening in Beijing, a White House official said.

Ndesandjo has kept a low public profile since reports surfaced last year that he was living and working in the southern Chinese capitalist and manufacturing haven of Shenzhen, around an hour's train ride from Hong Kong.

In an interview with CNN, Obama said he didn't know his half-brother very well, but he did not feel Ndesandjo was betraying private family details in his book.

"It's no secret that my father was a troubled person. Anybody who's read my first book, 'Dreams from My Father', knows that, you know, he had an alcoholism problem and that he didn't treat his families very well," the president said.

"And, you know, so, obviously, that's just a sad part of my history and my background. But it's not something that I — I spend a lot of time brooding over."


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