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Leah Wangui Karaba, a sister of one of the victims with a flower during the Consortium of August 7th 1998 Victims inaugural Thanksgiving prayers at the Bomb Blast Memorial Park, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
Survivors of the 1998 bomb blast in Nairobi have appealed to the governments of Kenya and the United States to respond to their longstanding pleas for compensation, which they say they have not received 26 years after the tragedy.