The British Army presence in Africa is largely based upon three main elements:

• The British Peace Support Team (BPST) in Kenya - BPST's mission is to coordinate UK military assistance to armed forces in Eastern Africa in order to contribute to Security Sector Reform and to increase peacekeeping capacity. To fulfil this mission it has three main parts:
  
  
  • International Mine Action Training Centre (IMATC) - The IMATC is a joint British and Kenyan venture aimed at alleviating the suffering caused by landmines and Explosive Remnants of War by providing high quality Mine Action Training
  • Peace Support Training Centre (PSTC)
  • A presence in the Kenyan Defence Staff College
    
• The British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK) - BATUK is a small permanent administrative element based on the outskirts of Nairobi and provides the logistic support to visiting units. Under an agreement with the Kenyan Government, three infantry battalions per year carry out six-week exercises in Kenya. A Royal Engineer Squadron also deploys to Kenya over the same period to carry out a civil engineering project. The training, named Exercise GRAND PRIX, takes place over the winter months and allows infantry battalions to carry out live firing, as well as experience a wide variety of climatic conditions, from desert to rain forest. They even learn some Swahili to aid relations with the local population.
  
• The International Military Assistance Training Team (IMATT (SL)) in Sierra Leone - The Centre opened in February 2005 and is located next to Nairobi's international airport. The IMATC offers an excellent training opportunity for Mine Action due to the bespoke facilities, access to local Kenyan training areas and unique position in a neutral and secure location in Africa. East Africa's first dedicated dog detection centre is now open at the IMATC and is currently home to 6 mine detection dogs. Training at the IMATC is exclusively humanitarian in nature and NGOs and other organisations operating in a mine affected region are welcome to use the facilities. The IMATT team's mission is to help develop the Sierra Leone Armed forces into a democratically accountable, effective and sustainable force to fulfil security tasks required by the Government of Sierra Leone. According to present plans, the size of IMATT(SL) will gradually decrease as the competence of the Sierra Leone Armed forces increases.