East Africa states buy modern equipment for armies
What you need to know:
A new report by Sipri for 2018 shows that in the region, Kenya topped the purchases, with six aircraft orders.
Uganda will this year receive 45 South African-manufactured Mamba APCs for assembly at the Armoured Vehicle Manufacturing and Assembly Facility in Jinja.
Tanzania last year received three Airbus AS-350 helicopters from an order of 10 it had made in 2017.
In Rwanda, the military last year acquired Red Arrow-9 anti-tank missiles, which it had ordered from China in 2016.
