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- ↑ "Kenya Army Engineers Brigade Combat Smuggling Ring & Militia Along Border with Ethiopia – Strategic Intelligence Service".
- ↑ "Kenya Completes Border Fence With Somalia - allAfrica.com". Archived from the original on 2016-12-06.
- 1 2 John Pike. "Kenya Army History". Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2021-11-14.