Kenya: US Anti-Terror Aid to Kenya Hits U.S.$400 Million in Ten Years

The US has given Kenya $400 million in counterterrorism aid over the last decade, a new report has shown, placing the country's security agencies among Africa's top beneficiaries of successive support by Washington.

According to the US Congressional Research Service, a public policy research institute of the United States Congress, the US Department of Defence has provided roughly $400 million (about Ksh40.4 billion) in counterterrorism aid to Kenya to help fight terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab.

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