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Kenya using US satellites to hunt down bandits in five counties

A police officer in an amoured personnel carrier (APC) in Mukutani after suspected bandits staged an attack. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The Kenyan government has roped in the US to flush out bandits from five counties in North Rift.

Sources at Vigilance House said that the US is helping Kenya with satellite images of the bandits' locations, routes and hideouts as part of the intelligence information KDF and the police are using to flush out bandits from Turkana, West Pokot, Baringo, Samburu, and Elgeyo/Marakwet counties.

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