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NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya Defense Forces will have to operate with a $ 49 million deficit in the 2021/22 budget, it emerged, after the European Union slashed donor repayments to Kenya by 66%, ahead of AMISOM's exit from Somalia . AMISOM troops are expected to withdraw from the Horn of Africa nation upon full implementation of the Somali transition plan by the end of 2021. AMISOM has nearly 22,000 troops in Somalia, fully paid by the European Union, the UN, the United States among other partners. In a report tabled in…

Boost as Joe Biden sends troops to Kenya in Al-Shabaab war NAIROBI, Kenya - US troops will work closely with the Kenya Defense Forces in the fight against Somalia-based al-Shabaab militants, it emerged just six months after Washington withdrew troops from Somalia under unclear circumstances. Former President Donald Trump, by executive order, ordered the withdrawal of troops in what he called a…

Robow kidnapped and KDF bombard Gedo over bad policy, says Hassan Sheikh MOGADISHU, Somalia - Former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has once again attacked the administration of President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, citing a series of problems which he says were triggered by bad decisions taken by the government. In a Twitter Space conversation hosted by Axadledubbed “Democratization and…

Somalia appoints team to investigate complaints about training of soldiers in Eritrea MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia has bowed to pressure on the underground training of young soldiers in Eritrea, following protests from their parents and opposition figures, who accuse the government of withholding information on their progress. There are nearly 5,000 soldiers training in Eritrea, but the government has…

Somalia: children injured in KDF airstrikes flown to Mogadishu MOGADISHU, Somalia - Dozens of children injured in so-called Kenya Defense Force Airstrikes in the Gedo area were airlifted to Mogadishu for further treatment, the government said, just hours after the African Union mission in Somalia pledged to investigate the incidents. The Somali government accused the KDF of carrying out…

AU mission to investigate suspected Kenyan military airstrikes in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia - The African Union mission in Somalia launched a series of investigations into the alleged bombing by the Kenya Defense Forces in parts of Gedo, where they reportedly targeted civilians last week. A statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation linked the KDF to…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A top defense force in Kenya the commander on Friday visited several forward bases in Somalia among Mogadishu's claims that Kenyan troops have targeted civilians in the Gedo region of Jubaland. Sector II Commander Brigadier Jeff Nyagah, who is also the contingent commander of the Kenyan troops serving in Somalia during AMISOM, visited the Kenyan Armed Forces deployed in various advancing bases in Somalia. Brigadier Nyagah visited troops based in Kolbiyow, Ras Kamboni, Kuday, Abdale Birole, New…

KDF condemned for killing innocent civilians in Somalia's airstrikes MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia has once again accused Kenya of the Armed Forces to carry out airstrikes in the Gedo region against civilians under the pretext of fighting extremists, in particular the Al-Shabaab group, which controls large parts of the countryside in central and southern Somalia. In a press release from the…

The KDF owed $ 35 million in the Al-Shabaab war in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia - Kenya has not yet received almost $ 35 million from its international partners, who are integrated into the financing of the Al-Shabaab war in Somalia, where the Kenya Defense Forces are important security partners according to a report published by Business Daily. According to the report, Kenya has not yet received…

KDF troopers killed in lethal ambush NAIROBI, Kenya - Not less than three Kenya Protection Forces troops had been killed on Tuesday in Lamu, inside the coastal area of Kenya, mentioned spokesman Colonel Zipporah Kioki, including that the attackers used IEDs earlier than ambushing the troops who had been on common patrol. The incident, the primary to happen in Kenyan soil in so many months, came…