List of events from the year

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Incumbents

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Uhuru Kenyatta Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born 26 October 1961) is a Kenyan politician who served as the fourth president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. Kenyatta was chosen by Daniel Arap Moi as his preferred successor, but Kenyatta was defeated by opposition le ...

Monthly events

Ongoing –

COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya The COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have reached Kenya on 12 March 2020, with the initia ...

January to March

*8 January **COVID-19 pandemic: 97,954 positive cases, 80,671 recoveries to date. **The United Nations releases Sh164 million (US$1.5 million) to fight

locust Locusts (derived from the Vulgar Latin ''locusta'', meaning grasshopper) are various species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumstanc ...

s. *25 January – Mansur Mohamed Surur is extradited to the United States for smuggling of rhinoceros horns and of elephant ivory were valued at more than USD $7 million. *28 January – Kenya orders 118 armored Katmerciler Hızır vehicles from Turkey at a price of €60 million (USD $73 million). *4 February – Gregory Dow, 61, a Christian missionary from

Lancaster, Pennsylvania Lancaster, ( ; pdc, Lengeschder) is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is one of the oldest inland cities in the United States. With a population at the 2020 census of 58,039, it ranks 11th in population amon ...

is sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing four underage girls at an orphanage he founded near Boito. *9 March – U.S. national Isaac Sturgeon, 32, is deported to JFK Airport in New York after being charged in crimes related to the January 2021 Washington riot. *24 March – The government orders the

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...

(UNHCR) to close the Dadaab and the Kakuma refugee camps, home to 410,000 refugees. *25 March – Three

DJs A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at a nightclub or music festival), mobile D ...

on ″Homeboyz Radio Lift-Offare″ are suspended after blaming Eunice Wangari, 20, for getting pushed out of a 12-story window while resisting sexual advances.

Sports

*18-21 and 23-26 March —

Kenya Open The Kenya Open, titled as the Magical Kenya Open for sponsorship reasons, is a professional golf tournament in Kenya founded in 1967. History The Kenya Open was an associate event on the Far East Circuit in 1967 and 1968, after which it became a ...

and Kenya Savannah Classic (golf) at Karen Country Club in Nairobi *17–22 August —

2021 World Athletics U20 Championships The 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships, also known as the World Junior Championships, was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 2002), which was held from 18 to 22 August 2 ...

*23 August — Tusker FC wins The 2020–21 FKF Premier League. *24 August–5 September — Kenya at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Deaths

*6 February –

Hosea Kiplagat Hosea Mundui Kiplagat (1945 – 6 February 2021) was a Kenyan politician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He belonged to the Tugen ethnic community. He was born to Isaac Salgong and Zipporah Salgong, a maternal cousin to the second president of ...

, 76, politician and philanthropist. *15 February – John Oyioka, politician, MP (20172021). *22 February – Two

Rothschild's giraffe Rothschild's giraffe (''Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi'') is a subspecies of the Northern giraffe. It is one of the most endangered distinct populations of giraffe, with 1,399 mature individuals estimated in the wild in 2018. Taxonomy and ...

s; electrocuted *22 March – Lorna Irungu, 50–51, television presenter and media relations executive; COVID-19. *29 March – Sarah Onyango Obama, 99, educator and philanthropist, grandmother of former U.S. President

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...

; complications from diabetes and a stroke. *8 September - Orie Rogo Manduli, 73, Politician.

References

External links

allAfrica (Kenya)

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The Standard (newspaper)The Star (newspaper)UK-Africa trade: What will Brexit change? (by Kate Hairsine, DW, January 18, 2021)
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