This is because many parts of east Africa have been historically colonized by the United Kingdom and France. This is why English and French are spoken in these parts of Africa today, instead of an indigenous African language. These areas have been under British and French rule for a long time so those languages tended to stick with the people.
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also has strong bilateral relations with major providers of economic and military aid, such as France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Switzerland, the United States, and particularly the United Kingdom, with whom military ties date to the nineteenth century.