For over a decade, Kenyan soldiers have been fighting the militant al-Shabab group in Somalia alongside other member states of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom).
The militant group's incursions had left the country and its citizens hurt and bleeding.
For example, the attack that was organised and executed by al-Shabab on Garissa University College, which left 148 dead, and Dusit Hotel in Nairobi, which left 21 dead.
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