Kenya Remembers Victims of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Attack

Twenty years ago, Al-Qaeda bombs outside the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 250 and injured more than 5 000. As the memorial is held, most of the survivors of the terror attack say they are yet to be compensated as promised.

An aerial view of the aftermath of the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi on August 7, 1998.

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