This report provides an overview of current U.S. counterterrorism assistance programs and influence operations in East Africa and explores some of the strategies underpinning them. It also provides a brief description of the evolving terrorist threat in the region and explores the various roles of the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Treasury, Justice, and the U.S. Agency for International Development in implementing counterterrorism programs in the region. The report does not address covert or clandestine operations to collect intelligence or capture or eliminate terrorist targets in the region.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "he's a long way from home byt a Kenya public offical visiting here Tuesday was keeping an eye on events in neighboring Sudan. Earnest A. Vasey, minister of finance in the east Africa crown colony."