Defence, Intelligence & Foreign Relations committee Chair Nelson Koech during the vetting of ambassadors at the Mini Chambers, County hall, Nairobi. October 27th, 2023, [Elvis Ogina, Standard] On Thursday last week, the skyline over Nairobi woke up to the luminous and promising sunshine; only this time a dark memory threatened to cloud this colourful day. Twenty-seven years ago, on this very day —August 7, 1998— Nairobi was a city in grief following the horrific bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi. More than 200 innocent people were killed. The same day, a second blast also ripped through the US Embassy in Dar…