NAIROBI, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's cabinet on Thursday approved the establishment of a counter-explosive device center in Nairobi to help fight against terrorism in the East African nation.
The cabinet meeting, which was chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta, said Germany has offered to donate 207 million Kenyan shillings (about 2.07 million U.S. dollars) for the construction of the counter-improvised explosive device center (C-IED Center) in Nairobi.
"The C-IED Center is deemed useful especially during the period that the KDF (Kenya Defense Forces) will remain in Somalia where IEDs are often used by the al-Shabab," the cabinet said in a statement issued after the meeting.
It said the C-IED Center, which will be a constituent college of the International Peace Support Training Center, will equip the Kenya Defense Forces personnel with the knowledge and technology to robustly detect and safely disarm IEDs.
The Kenyan police said al-Shabab militants have changed tactics and resorted to using improvised explosive devices to carry out attacks across the country.
