Renegotiating Military Immunity: Kenya’s New Terms for Foreign Troops

In July 2026, Britain suspended one of its flagship military exercises in Kenya after Nairobi withheld the licences required for troops to train in Laikipia. Five days later, the two governments reached an agreement allowing Exercise Haraka Storm to proceed. The immediate diplomatic crisis ended, but the deeper dispute did not; the standoff revealed that Kenya is no longer questioning the terms of Britain’s military presence but using licensing, parliamentary oversight, and domestic law to press for new legal terms governing how that presence operates. The strategy has been in development for several years, and it owes much to the […] The post Renegotiating Military Immunity: Kenya’s New Terms for Foreign Troops appeared first on African Arguments.