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Twenty Years on from al-Qaeda's Attack on US Embassies
More than 200 people, mainly Africans, were killed in the Kenya and Tanzania bombings
More than 200 people, mainly Africans, were killed in the bombing of the US embassy buildings in Kenya and Tanzania. The attacks brought Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda to global prominence. We look back at the attacks' impact.
Also in the programme: fears of a climate change 'domino effect'; reaction from Tehran to new US sanctions; and plans to construct more roads through the Amazon rainforest spark controversy.
(Photo: A boy walks past a mural memorialising the bombings 20 years ago. Credit: AFP)
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Tue 7 Aug 201813:06GMT
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