Claim: Kenyan authorities have released papers confirming President Barack Obama's birth in that country.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, October 2014]
Is this true?
Is this true? BREAKING: Kenyan Government Releases Obama’s Real Birth Certificate
Origins: On 28 May 2014, the World News Daily Report web site published an article positing that Kenyan authorities had released papers seemingly confirming U.S. President Barack Obama had been born in that country:
The papers released today suggest that Barack Obama was actually born on
The Office of the Principal Register of the Nyanza Province, in Kenya, has finally released 11 exclusive documents concerning Barack Obama’s alleged birth and early childhood in the country. These official papers had been requested for years by the Tea Party Patriots, an American conservative organization, to no avail, but the Kenyan Supreme Court recently ordered authorities to release the documents, based on a law on "access to information." These files, if they turn out to be verifiable, could mean that Mr. Obama had no legal right to become the American president under the country's law.
That article largely remained dormant for five months after its initial publication, until
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Last updated: 25 October 2014
