Kenyan military officials will in March meet with their United States Department of Defence counterparts to finalise the purchase of $418 million’s worth of military equipment that includes ammunition, machine guns, rocket launchers, and guided bombs mounted on militarised Air Tractors to replace Kenya’s ageing F-5 fighter jets.
The US has approved the foreign military sales order that Nairobi placed as it emerges that the deal could be part of the coalition operations agreement signed when former US president Barack Obama visited the country in 2015.
