Kenya and UK counter-IED training initiative has resumed at the Humanitarian Peace Support School in Nairobi after five-month-long disruption due to Covid-19 pandemic. The training platform seeks to equip the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) personnel with technical skills in handling IED as they restore sanity in Somalia. This yielded fruits translating into a five per cent increase in the detection of IEDs in Somalia within the period of 2018 to 2019. Beside this was the decrease in the number of AMISOM casualties affected by the IEDs by 11 per cent. The training is part of the broader strategic partnership agreement that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Uhuru Kenyatta actualised in January 2020.

Source: Standard Digital August 30, 2020 08:03 UTC