Kenya has also established, in law, the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) to deepen inter-agency coordination particularly in understanding and mapping the threat as well as elaborating the necessary strategies for implementation.
He said his government continues to work closely with local, regional and international partners to implement counter-terrorism efforts.
He said Kenya’s strategy broadly focuses on three broad components of: preventive actions, curative measures and community resilience initiatives.
In efforts to stabilise Somalia, Britain said Monday it would send dozens of troops there and possibly South Sudan to train soldiers and boost security in the region.
Around 70 troops will go to Somalia, where the Al Shabaab is fighting the internationally-backed government in Mogadishu protected by 22,000 African Union troops from Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.
Up to 300 may also be deployed in South Sudan, where an internationally-brokered ceasefire deal was agreed in August, the eighth such agreement since civil war broke out in 2013.
The British troops will help with training and logistics support, a spokesman for Cameron told a regular briefing of journalists.
“This is not about putting boots on the ground, sending in combat troops,” the spokesman said.
As well as improving security, the move is also intended to help stem migration from the two countries to Britain, officials said.
“There’s the right thing to do, there’s the moral responsibility… but there’s also a strong rationale for doing it in terms of what is good for both security in the region and our own security,” the Downing Street spokesman said.
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