Tributes for matriarch of Obama family in Kenya following death ‘aged 99’

Tributes for matriarch of Obama family in Kenya following death ‘aged 99’
Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of then US President Barack Obama, shakes the hand of a well-wisher (Ben Curtis/AP)

Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former US President Barack Obama’s Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed.

She was at least 99 years old.

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