A groundbreaking DNA and legal project is delivering life-changing answers to nearly 100 Kenyan children born near a British army base in Nanyuki—children who grew up without fathers, in poverty, and in some cases believing those fathers were dead. Using commercial genealogy databases like Ancestry.com, lawyers have so far legally confirmed paternity in 12 cases, with most children now eligible for British citizenship and financial support. The cases emerge from decades of controversy surrounding the British Army Training Unit in Kenya, which a Kenyan parliamentary inquiry accused last year of operating with “a culture of impunity.” Some fathers have welcomed the news; others have resisted. For the children involved, the answers—however complicated—are finally arriving.
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