A pioneering DNA and legal initiative has identified the fathers of 20 children born to Kenyan women near the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (Batuk), a base in Nanyuki — a market town roughly 185km north of Nairobi — that sees more than 5,000 British personnel pass through annually. Using commercial genealogy databases such as Ancestry.com, geneticists and lawyers cross-referenced DNA samples from the children with millions of uploaded genetic profiles, successfully tracing absent British soldiers and contractors; paternity has been legally confirmed in 12 cases by a UK Family Court judge, with most of those children now eligible for British citizenship and child maintenance payments. The project carries broader significance given a recent Kenyan parliamentary inquiry that accused British soldiers at Batuk of operating with "a culture of impunity," citing sexual abuse, rights violations, and the abandonment of local children — allegations to which the UK Ministry of Defence said it "deeply regrets those issues and challenges which have arisen."