Rhamu Incident

The Rhamu Incident, also known as Battle of Rhamu on the 29 June 1977, was a brief armed conflict between Kenya and Somalia, in which the latter invaded the Northern Frontier District on the eve of the Ogaden War. A force of 3000+ Somali soldiers supported by The Somali Air Force attacked a border post, and killed 480 Kenyan police officers and soldiers.[1] The Somali army did not stay as the objective of their mission was to invade Ethiopian troops from a different side inside Ethiopia through Kenya, for an easy offensive rear attacks to backstab the Ethiopian army. Rhamu, situated on the Ethiopian-Kenyan border, lay on the road to the Sidamo region, and was considered a strategic point of entrance.The kenyan government after the huge casualties of its forces in NFD, They immediately ordered a retreat from NFD, and started to mobilize all the Kenyan forces, near the border of NFD, The kenyan government worrisome of a bigger escalation from Somalia, They requested aid and interference from UK if things escalated to full war and incision into kenya, The Somali government denied the invasion, and claimed to have no knowledge of the incident.

Rhamu Incident
Part of Somali–Kenyan conflict
Date 29 June 1977 Location Northern Frontier District, Kenya Result Somali victory Somali army successfully crossed into the Sidamo Region of Ethiopia
Belligerents
Kenyan military, Kenyan Police	Somali National Army, WSLF, Somali Air Force
Strength
2158	3000+
Casualties and losses
480 soldiers and police officers killed 6 aircraft destroyed 20 tanks destroyed or captured 40+ armoured vehicles destroyed or captured	19 soldiers killed 5 tanks destroyed 10 armoured vehicles destroyed