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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Desmond Tiro

The children of British soldiers left behind in Kenya are now tracing their fathers

David Mwangi Macharia, takes tea with his family in Rumuruti, Laikipia county, Kenya, Sunday, July 27, 2024 - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Margaret Wandia became pregnant after a week-long relationship with a British soldier training near her community in Kenya. They met while she worked at a bar in her early 20s. She knew little about him. He left her with a biracial child.

Now that son is 26, and he is part of an effort by a Kenyan lawyer to take a number of such children to Britain. The goal is to confront authorities over hundreds of such cases reported over the years, and to find the fathers and seek their support.

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