WAR WITH NO END IN SIGHT: Kenya and Uganda go head to head today in age-old football derby

Harambee Stars head coach Stanley Okumbi instructs his charges during their morning training session at Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos on March 22, 2017. Kenyan national team trains ahead of their double-header international friendlies against Uganda and DRC Congo on March 22, and 26, 2017 respectively. Photo/Stafford Ondego/www.sportpicha.com

Kenya came close to a full blown war with Uganda some time in 1976 when then President, Al-Haji Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada ignited a row claiming the whole of Nyanza and Western Provinces, all the way to Naivasha, was their territory.

It is only after President Jomo Kenyatta flexed Kenya’s muscle by threatening to block Uganda’s imports through the Port of Mombasa did Amin Dada beat a hasty retreat.