Ethiopia and Kenya signed a new Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) in Addis Ababa.
This historic accord came into being six decades after the first such pact was concluded in 1963, the year Kenya gained independence.
The agreement was signed on September 24, 2025 at the National Defense Headquarters in Addis Ababa, following a bilateral meeting between Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, Chief of General Staff of the Ethiopian Armed Forces, and Kenya’s Chief of Defense Forces General Charles Charles Kahariri,.
Ethiopia and Kenya enjoy a longstanding fraternal relationship, from diplomatic to political relations, people-to-people ties, and economic cooperation.
A series of meetings held in both Nairobi and Addis Ababa led to the signing of the second cooperation agreement yesterday in the Ethiopian capital.
One of these meetings, held in November last year, saw a Kenyan delegation visit Addis Ababa, where the two militaries agreed to expand joint training and security operations.
Both nations are currently contributing troops to the African Union Stabilisation Support Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM).
This military pact between the two brotherly nations will provide a strategic framework and set the stage for future cooperation in intelligence sharing, joint military exercises, training, defense industry development, counter-terrorism, border security, and related military matters.
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