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Been good, caused a fire, killed an elephant and feel terrible about it but hey-ho, when in Rome." [1] According to the BBC, the incident led to an environmental lawsuit signed by almost 1,000 local residents. [1] In 2022 the Kenya News Agency reported that 6,000 local residents had filed for compensation from the British Army. [5]
Residents of central Kenya's Lolldaiga area have accused a British army training unit based nearby of causing a 2021 wildfire that destroyed much of a nature reserve, leaving behind ordnance that ...
A fire broke out in a wildlife conservancy in Kenya during an exercise by British troops stationed in the country, the British army said. “We can confirm that there has been a fire during a UK ...
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.
The Mau Mau rebellion (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau uprising, Mau Mau revolt, or Kenya Emergency, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities. [9]
An advocacy group and residents went to court in 2021 alleging that a British army training exercise caused a devastating fire at a wildlife conservancy. More than 10,000 acres (15 square miles ...
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.
Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where ...