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Kenya and Uganda receive helicopters for enhanced war against Al Shabaab

African Union Mission in Somalia has been spearheading the war against Al Shabaab. PHOTO FILE | NATION

By  Allan Olingo

Nation Media Group

Kenya and Uganda will in coming months receive advanced military helicopters in an aircraft modernisation scheme to strengthen Amisom’s onslaught against Al Shabaab in Somalia. 

Uganda will receive five Huey II helicopters from US supplier Bell by August in its biggest acquisition since 2012, when it bought six Su-30MK fighter jets from Russia at a cost of $179.6 million.

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