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Caroline Kimeu in Nairobi

Unilever to make payments to Kenyan tea pickers over 2007 plantation attacks

A man picks tea leaves on a Kenya tea plantation
Tea picking in Kenya. Seven people were killed and at least 50 women raped at the Kericho plantation in violence after the disputed 2007 elections. Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Alamy

Unilever is to make payments to 77 tea pickers who worked on one of its plantations in Kenya that was targeted during post-election violence in 2007.

The UK law firm Leigh Day, representing the workers, said the London-based consumer goods multinational had agreed to make voluntary, or ex-gratia, payments to former workers at its subsidiary Unilever Tea Kenya, who were attacked by armed assailants at its plantation in Kericho.

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