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Last EditedMonsieur  Nov 18, 2009 08:26pm
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AuthorJake Tapper, Sunlen Miller, Karen Travers and Nadine Shubailat
News DateThursday, November 19, 2009 02:25:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionBEIJING -- Before President Obama met with Chinese President and Paramount Leader Hu Jintao after arriving in Beijing, he squeezed in a brief family reunion of sorts with his half brother, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo.

Ndesandjo shares a father with the president -- the late Barack Obama Sr. who separated from the president's mother when Obama was two, and married Ndesandjo's mother, American Ruth Nidesand, who runs a kindergarten in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ndesandjo grew up in Kenya but now lives near Hong Kong. He and his wife flew in specially this week to meet with the President.

In an interview Wednesday with ABC News, Ndesandjo said he is “over the moon” for having seen his “big brother” in China.
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