U.S. Gives Aid on Anniversary of Kenya Bombing
The United States on Monday marked the anniversary of the bombing of its embassy in Kenya by providing a grant to replace a bank destroyed in the blast two years ago.
The U.S. Agency for International Development delivered a check for $267,000 to help the Ufundi Savings and Credit Cooperative Society place a down payment on an existing building in downtown Nairobi. Ufundi contributed $67,000 toward the purchase of the building and donated the land where its old building stood to be used along with the former embassy grounds for a memorial park.
A car bomb exploded in the parking lot between the U.S. Embassy and the Ufundi Cooperative House on Aug. 7, 1998, killing 213 people and injuring more than 5,000. The Ufundi house included rental space that provided the cooperative’s sole source of income.
Another bomb exploded nearly simultaneously outside the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 11 and wounding dozens.
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