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The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) (Swahili: Majeshi ya Ulinzi ya Kenya, stylized as "KENYA ARMED FORCES" capitalized on its coat of arms) are the armed forces of the Republic of Kenya. They are made up of the Kenya Army, Kenya Navy, and Kenya Air Force. The current KDF was established, and its composition stipulated, in Article 241 of the 2010 ...
Ibrahim Mohamed, Principal Secretary. Parent agency. Cabinet of Kenya. Website. https://mod.go.ke/. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Kenya is a cabinet-level office in charge of defense-related matters of Kenya. It oversees the Kenya Defence Forces. It is currently headed by Her Excellency Soipan Tuya.
The origins of the present day Kenya Army can be traced back to the British Army 's King's African Rifles. [2] In the last quarter of the 19th Century, the British began actively enforcing the abolition of the slave trade in East Africa. Concurrently, other European nations were establishing spheres of influence in Africa.
The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) is the highest-ranking military officer in the Kenya Defence Forces and the principal military adviser to the President of Kenya and the National Security Council. The CDF outranks all respective heads of each service branch and has operational command authority over the service branches.
1984–2024. Rank. General. Commands. Chief of the Defence Forces. Commander of the Kenya Air Force. Vice Chief of Defence Forces. General Francis Omondi Ogolla (12 February 1962 – 18 April 2024) [1] was a Kenyan military officer who served from April 2023 to April 2024 as the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF).
Nyati Barracks, Nanyuki. The British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK) is a training support unit of the British Army located in Kenya. On 3 June 1964, Duncan Sandys, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, signed a post-independence defence agreement with the new Kenyan government. Among its other provisions, it specified that British ...
The military ranks of Kenya are the military insignia used by the Kenya Defence Forces. Being a former colony of the United Kingdom , Kenya shares a rank structure similar to that of the United Kingdom, especially the British Army .
Kenya Special Forces. The Kenya Special Forces are units tasked with special operations found within the three branches of the Kenya Defence Forces and are under Special Forces Operations Command. [1] The Army has the largest number of these units under the Army Special Operations Brigade (Kenya) containing the 20th Parachute Battalion (20th ...