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US Embassy blasts: Kenyan victims plead for help 25 years on

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Mariel Müller
August 7, 2023

Twenty-five years ago, on August 7, 1998, an attack by Al Qaeda on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people. Thousands more were injured. While US nationals and embassy employees were compensated two years ago, Kenyans injured nearby have received nothing.