UK cancels military training exercise in Kenya after licence dispute
"It is with regret that the necessary licences required to allow training to take place in Laikipia later this year have not been forthcoming," the British ministry of defence said in a statement.
The east African nation became independent from Britain in 1963 but ties remain strong and their defence agreement allows for several thousand British troops to carry out exercises on Kenyan soil each year.
Kenya hosts a permanent base for the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK) in Laikipia, about 200 kilometres (130 miles) north of Nairobi.
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