Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former US President Barack Obama’s Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday, declaring that she did not die of COVID-19. She was at least 99 years old. Mama Sarah, as the step-grandmother of the former US president was fondly called, promoted education for girls and orphans in her rural Kogelo village. She passed away around 4 a.m. local time while being treated at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral hospital in Kisumu, Kenya’s third-largest city in the country’s west, according to…
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