British troops to return to Kenya for training in January

Britain will deploy it's troops back to Kenya in January to continue with its training program under the British Army Training Unit in Kenya(BATUK).

The training unit based in Nanyuki had been recalled back to the UK earlier in March following the outbreak of Covid -19.

On Wednesday, the British High Commission announced that BATUK is ready to resume training in Kenya as the Covid-19 infection curve continues to flatten.

" Some of the Staffers are already back because we have seen the Covid-19 numbers go down. So we are ready to resume training with our Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) partners," Deputy British High Commissioner Julius Court said.

According to the Brigadier Mark Thornhill, defense advisor to the British High Commission, training by BATUK in Nanyuki will officially resume in January 2021 when the troops are expected to jet into the country.