OBAMAS BROTHER LIVES IN A CARDBOARD BOX IN KENYA ON A DOLLOR A MONTH!

By Nick Pisa in Rome

Last Updated: 11:52AM BST 21 Aug 2008

George Hussein Onyango Obama, Senator Barack Obama's long lost brother was tracked down living in a hut on the outskirts of Nairobi Photo: Guy Calaf, Vanity Fair, Italy

The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.

Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.

"No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month."

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Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman, declined to comment further on the Democratic presidential nominee's relationship with Zeituni Onyango, who has been living for several years in city public housing.

Onyango, who is paid a small stipend for working as a health advocate in her public housing complex, has shunned attention. This morning, she said nothing and ignored a television camera and several reporters as she walked out of her first-floor apartment, handed a duffle bag to the driver of a taxicab, and was driven off.