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Kenya Outguns Neighbours in Military Spending

A report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research shows that Kenya has in the past five years continued to top its regional neighbours both in budget size and annual spending growth, causing fear that it could spark an arms race in a volatile region.

Kenya: Military Spending Hits New High of Over U.S.$1 Billion

Nation, 1 May 2019

Kenya's military spending last year rose to a new high of Sh109.7 billion to exceed the amount spent by neighbours Tanzania and Uganda combined for the first time, according to a… Read more »

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Kenya Defence Forces soldiers under the Africa Union Mission in Somalia in Kismayo on November 20, 2015.

Kenya: The Mixed Legacies of Retired Kenya Military Generals

Nation, 21 April 2019

When he finally exits in the coming days, General Samsom Mwathethe will likely be remembered for a chequered tenure whose lowest points were perhaps the attacks on Somalia-based… Read more »
Kenya: Military Shake-Up Looms as Mwathethe Retires

Nation, 19 April 2019

The military top command is bracing for a shake-up over the impending retirement of Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Samson Mwathethe, whose four-year term ended this week. Read more »

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Panic in Somalia Over Kenyan Army Pullout

Somali leaders say Kenyan troops started withdrawing from Somalia after moving out of Busar, Kenya Defence Forces's command centre in the northern sector of Jubaland, a town that ... Read more »
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