Kenya became Africa's second-largest importer of major arms in 2025, reflecting the country's growing investment in national security amid rising regional instability and modernisation of its defence forces.
Kenya imported 117 million Trend-Indicator Value (TIV) worth of major conventional arms in 2025, a more than six-fold increase from 19 million TIV recorded in 2024, according to data from Sweden-based Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), an independent global security think tank.
