Obama snubs half-brother ahead of Kenya visit

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President Obama has yet to tell his half-brother that he'll be visiting Kenya next week, Malik Abon'go Obama informed Bloomberg Business. "From what I hear, he is coming now as the president of the United States," Malik said. "He should have at least informed us as his family."

Malik — who was the best man at the president's wedding — fulfilled a promise to his father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., when he brought Barack Jr. to their family village in Kogelo in 1988. However, Malik reports that since becoming president, Obama hasn't invited him to visit in the U.S., nor will the president be visiting Kogelo when he travels to Nairobi on July 24 for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

"I would like for us to just sit down and have a vanilla ice cream or a strawberry fruitcake, just to have a nice dinner, nice steak, Caesar salad, sit down and enjoy each other," Malik told Bloomberg Business. "I don't really know my nieces, Malia and Sasha, and they don't know my children either."

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