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President Obama says it’s, quote, ‘wondeful to be back in Kenya’. But as we mentioned he also took a moment to reflect on recent violence in Kenya’s modern history – specifically honouring the victims of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Nairobi. Obama laid a wreath to the victims. The site of the attack in central Nairbi is now a memorial park.

 

The new embassy is further away from the centre now. On the seventh of August 1998, hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. The attack brought al-Qaeda to the international stage for the first time.