£19.9m Mau Mau settlement
Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced a £19.9 million compensation settlement for Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s.
Obama's relative 'among Mau Mau torture victims'
President Barack Obama's Kenyan grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama was among those imprisoned and tortured by the British during the Mau May uprising, The Times reported in 2008.
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