US anti-terror aid to Kenya hits $400m in ten years
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and US leader Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC during an official visit August 27, 2018. The US has given Kenya $400 million in counterterrorism aid over the last decade, a report shows. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
The US has given Kenya $400 million in counterterrorism aid over the last decade, a new report has shown, placing the country’s security agencies among Africa’s top beneficiaries of successive support by Washington.
According to the US Congressional Research Service, a public policy research institute of the United States Congress, the US Department of Defence has provided roughly $400 million (about Ksh40.4 billion) in counterterrorism aid to Kenya to help fight terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab.
