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v. t. e. Operation Linda Nchi ( Swahili: Linda Nchi; "Protect the Country") had the Kenya Defence Forces enter southern Somalia beginning in 2011. [46] [4] [47] The Kenyan government declared the operation completed in March 2012, but its forces then joined AMISOM in Somalia. [48] [49] [50] Academic observers and the International Crisis Group ...
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 ...
The Battle of El Adde took place on 15 January 2016. Al-Shabaab militants launched an attack on a Kenyan-run AMISOM army base in the town of El Adde, Gedo, Somalia. It remains the deadliest attack on the African Union Mission to Somalia and is the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) largest defeat since independence in 1963.
However, Kenya declined to attend the ICJ hearings on the case in March 2021, saying in a statement that the country felt betrayed by the Somali government which had “incited hostility against Kenya, and actively contributed to the climate that encourages attacks against Kenyan civilians and against Kenyan forces in Somalia” despite the ...
1 killed; 3 wounded civilians [5] The Battle of Kismayo was an offensive led by the Kenya Defence Forces, under the codename Operation Sledge Hammer, to seize the port city of Kismayo, Somalia, from Al-Shabaab from 28 September 2012. [6] [7] Fighting alongside the Kenya Army were Raskamboni movement militia and the Somali Army.
With the majority of Mogadishu secure, the Somali Armed Forces and Kenya Defence Forces next launched Operation Linda Nchi, a joint advance against Al-Shabaab, in October 2011. [102] [103] [104] This operation had reportedly been planned for nearly two years, during which time Kenyan officials sought U.S. support for the mission.
The Garissa Massacre was a 1980 massacre of ethnic Somali residents by the Kenyan government in the Garissa District of the North Eastern Province.The incident occurred when government forces, acting on the premise of flushing out a local hoodlum known as Abdi Madobe, set fire to a residential estate called Bulla Kartasi, killing people and raping women.
The Kenya Army has participated and continues to participate in international peacekeeping, Peace Support Operations. These activities were first considered in 1973 when the United Nations requested Kenya to contribute forces to UNEF II which was to separate Israel and the Arab states after the October War.