The East African
Saturday December 12 2020
Summary
In 2000, the US embassy bombers were arrested and handed sentences by the district court in New York, largely based on eye-witness accounts by Kenyans.
The bombers were traced back to Sudan, and the US and the international community imposed sanctions on Sudan.
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August 7, 1998 started as an ordinary day for 16-year-old Stanley Mutuma. At about 10.30am, he was seated in a matatu on Haile Selassie Road by the US embassy in Nairobi, headed to the Kenyatta International Conference Centre for the annual school drama festival. He expected to be there in 10 minutes.
But then suddenly his world exploded.