A total of 75 Kenyan military personnel have returned to their homeland after completing a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.
The 65-man and 10-woman force has been part of a UN peacekeeping operation in South Sudan’s Darfur region for 21 months.
Kenya’s Deputy Chief of Army Staff, Major General Albert Kendagor, welcomed the troops at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi and commended them for their work and for their safe return.
Meanwhile, Kenyan troops returning from a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan will be isolated for 10 days, before being allowed to reunite with their families.
Mwangi, a Kenyan peacekeeper in South Sudan, died of COVID on April 19 this year.
