Kenya Defence Forces provided Strategic Airlift and Logistics Support to the Contingent from South Sudan’s Juba International Airport to Goma International Airport in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
On Sunday, an advance party of the South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF) troops and their logistics, under the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF), arrived at Goma on board two Kenya Air Force Spartan CJ27 military transport aircraft.
While in Juba, ahead of the departure, South Sudan President Salva Kiir, in a statement read by the Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs General Chol Thon, expressed his confidence in the SSPDF troops under EACRF, in carrying out their mission professionally.
Cops arrested
Two Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) detectives have been arrested for failing to repatriate four Somali nationals who were found to be in the country illegally.
Police said the two will on Tuesday, April 4 be charged at Kahawa Law Courts for various offenses.
The two Constables attached to the ATPU in Lamu were arrested by detectives from the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU) and are detained at Capitol Hill police station in Nairobi.
Appearance before MPs
Directors of Jamhuri Holdings, Paul Cummigharm are expected to appear before the committee on Finance and National Planning today in an ongoing inquiry into Sh6.09 billion buyback and legal status of Telkom Kenya.
In Courts
Eight police officers from the disbanded Special Service Unit (SSU), suspected to be behind the disappearance of two Indians and their Kenyan taxi driver likely to be charged today at Kahawa Law Court.
Man to be charged with stabbing his mother six times over tough economic times
Father and mother are to be arraigned over the death of their one-year-old child.
Woman to be charged with threatening to kill her cousin after a short disagreement.