{{US President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush joined up in Africa Tuesday to honour those killed in the US embassy bombing in Tanzania in 1998.}}<\/p>\n
Democrat Obama and Republican Bush arrived at a memorial to the bombing victims, a block of stone in a new embassy compound in Dar es Salaam, together in a rare meeting of US leaders on foreign soil.<\/p>\n
They stood side by side and bowed their heads in a moment of silence, after a US Marine fixed a red, white and blue wreath on a stand, and then greeted American and Tanzanian guests.<\/p>\n
The event came on the final day of Obama\u2019s Africa tour and while Bush was on the continent to promote humanitarian programs run by his policy centre.<\/p>\n
The actual site of the embassy bombing, which was carried out by Al-Qaeda and killed 11 people, is a mile and a half away from the new US compound.<\/p>\n
Fifteen Tanzanians who worked at the embassy and who survived the attack are still employees of the US mission today, the White House said.<\/p>\n
The bombing was timed to coincide with a separate attack on the US embassy in the Kenyan capital Nairobi that left 213 dead and several thousand wounded.<\/p>\n
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