Overview

• Payments totaling £2.9 million are being distributed to 7,723 residents near the Lolldaiga conservancy under a confidential settlement.
• The agreement is ex gratia, with the UK not accepting fault for the 2021 blaze believed to have started during a British Army Training Unit Kenya exercise.
• Many recipients have been told to expect around 22,000 Kenyan shillings, prompting disappointment and planned protests, according to a local lawmaker.
• The British High Commission called the fire "extremely regrettable" and declined to say whether any personnel faced disciplinary action.
• Oversight and recovery issues persist, with a Kenyan parliamentary probe into BATUK ongoing and a consultancy estimating ecological recovery could extend to at least 2060.