article_snippet: Kenya is threatening to tear up a 40-year military co-operation deal with UK amid claims that British soldiers – who have allegedly committed serious crimes in Kenya – are escaping justice.
article_snippet: These are tough negotiations and there will be no backing down by Kenya on this issue,’ presidential adviser Manoah Esipisu said.
article_snippet: Kenya is not the same country as when these agreements were signed.
article_snippet: Kenyan security expert Professor Trevor Ng’ulia said relations between the two countries were so bad that it was a matter of ‘who blinks first’ in the current face-off before the deadline of April 21.
article_snippet: Kenyan security expert Professor Trevor Ng’ulia said relations had soured since 2013 when British High Commissioner Christian Turner warned in the run-up to Kenyan elections that the UK would not be prepared to meet Mr Kenyatta if Mr Kenyatta was elected,
article_snippet: ‘except for essential business’ as Mr Kenyatta had been indicted by the International Criminal Court and was due to stand trial for Mr Kenyatta alleged involvement in post-election violence and killings in 2007.
article_snippet: This was exacerbated by continual Foreign Office travel advisories warning tourists that Kenya was not safe from terrorism.
article_snippet: Mr Kenyatta is believed to have retaliated by refusing permits for a battalion from the Parachute Regiment due to replace 700 infantrymen who were then stranded in Nairobi for several days as a result.
article_snippet: One month later Britain sent five senior Kenyan army officers home in a suspected tit-for-tat.
highlights_snippet: Kenya is threatening to tear up 40-year military co-operation deal with UK .
  