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No word on compensation as Barack Obama visits Memorial Park

US President Barack Obama in a minute of silence after laying a wreath at the Memorial Park in Nairobi to commemorate victims of August 7, 1998 bombing of the US Embassy. [Photo: Jacob Otieno/Standard]

US President Barack Obama became the senior most American leader to lay a wreath at the August 7 Memorial Park in Nairobi.

Obama  arrived at the site of the former US embassy in Nairobi at about lunch hour yesterday, and spent about ten minutes with victims and families of the survivors of the 1998 attack, which killed hundreds. A similar attack was carried out in Dar-es-Salam.  

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