Britain has been forced to cancel a planned military training exercise in Kenya after Nairobi declined to ratify a new bilateral defence agreement, with the two countries locked in a dispute over legal jurisdiction, troop accountability and the terms of Britains military presence in the East African nation

A dispute over military cooperation and accountability strains a decades-old UK-Kenya partnership.

Britain has moved a major military exercise from Kenya to Tanzania after Kenya withheld BATUK training licences.