A landmark Kenyan parliamentary inquiry has issued the most damning assessment yet of Britain’s military presence in the country, detailing decades of alleged sexual violence, killings, environmental harm and institutional obstruction by BATUK, and warning that abuses long shielded by immunity can no longer be ignored.

The British Army has halted the use of white phosphorus munitions in Kenya following a 2022 Declassified UK exposé revealing their deployment on communal lands, but with the underlying licence still active, critics warn that this pause leaves open the prospect of future use

Britain’s military training missions in Africa aim to promote stability and rights, but in practice they often entangle the UK with fragile regimes, limited oversight and contested outcomes.

Thirteen years after the murder of Agnes Wanjiru, her family’s renewed fight for justice exposes not only the slow grind of extradition but also a deeper pattern of exploitation and impunity surrounding Britain’s military presence in Kenya.

A Kenyan court has issued an arrest warrant for a former British soldier over the 2012 killing of Agnes Wanjiru, highlighting long-standing concerns about impunity and misconduct linked to Britain’s overseas deployments.

A British Army inquiry has found that some soldiers at its Kenya training base continue to pay for sex despite a 2022 ban, prompting new disciplinary measures and renewed scrutiny over past misconduct.

AOAV exposes systemic failures in the UK military justice system – ones marked by low conviction rates, lenient sentencing, political interference, and lack of accountability – failures that undermine fairness, erode trust, and demand urgent reform.

The British Army’s decade-long cover-up of the murder of Agnes Wanjiru by a soldier in Kenya exposes systemic failures within military accountability, as new witnesses emerge, and a whistleblower’s life is destroyed by institutional silence.

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)’s Kenya desk holds no records of communications with Kenyan authorities regarding ongoing inquiries into alleged misconduct by British soldiers stationed in the east African nation, AOAV has learnt.

The murder of Agnes Wanjiru by a British soldier in 2012 has exposed a toxic culture of misogyny and racism within the British Army, where her death was allegedly joked about by senior officers, raising questions about accountability and systemic reform.

Kenyan women have accused British Army soldiers of rape and fathering children they later abandoned, leading to renewed scrutiny and calls for justice.

A public inquiry into alleged human rights abuses by British troops in Kenya reveals distressing testimonies from victims, prompting calls for justice and accountability.