This is after a US court awarded about $907 million to Tanzanian and American victims of the twin bombings, leaving out thousands of the Kenyan victims. A letter delivered to the US embassy in Nairobi said compensation “will help bring closure and healing to so many who have suffered for so long because they stood with America”.
The US missions in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were hit by near simultaneous car bombings on August 7 1998. The twin bombings killed a total of 224 people and injured some 5 000 – almost all of them Kenyans and Tanzanians.
Washington has said it has already spent tens of millions of dollars in medical treatment, school fees, counselling, and reconstruction services for the thousands of Kenyan and Tanzanian victims.
