List of events from the year 2020 in Kenya.
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Incumbents
editEvents
edit- 5 January – War in Somalia: Camp Simba attack.[1][2]
- 13 March – First case of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.[3]
- March 15 – Cabinet Secretary for Health, Mutahi Kagwe, announced that two people who had sat next to the initial patient on an aircraft in transit from the United States had also tested positive for the virus.[4]
- 18 June – Kenya narrowly achieves a majority in the second day of voting, defeating Djibouti in the 2020 United Nations Security Council Elections. Kenya wins a two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council to begin January 1, 2021.[5][6]
- 25 June – Police officers killed three people at a protest in Lesos, Nandi East Sub-County.[7][8]
- 30 October – The United Nations and the World Food Programme launch a major cash and nutrition relief project in conjunction with local and national authorities to provide aid for 400,000 urban poor in COVID-19 hotspots.[9]
- 16 November – COVID-19 pandemic: Schools close and student pregnancies increase during lockdown.[10]
- 10 December – A high court orders the government to compensate four victims of sexual attacks by security agents during post-election violence during violence following the 2007 Kenyan general election.[11]
- 15 December – Somalia cuts diplomatic ties with Kenya after Muse Bihi Abdi from Somalialand visits Kenya.[12]
- 16 December – Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 30, a Kenyan national, is transferred to United States custody after being arrested in the Philippines on terrorism charges in an alleged 9/11-type attack on behalf of Al-Shabaab.[13]
- 21 December – COVID-19 pandemic: Thousands of members of the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union go on strike, demanding more PPE and better health insurance. Kenya reports 94,500 COVID-19 cases and 1,639 deaths.[14]
- 30 December – Al-Shabaab gunmen kill a man taking his pregnant wife to hospital.[15]
Deaths
edit- 6 September – Dickson Wamwiri, Olympic taekwondo practitioner (b. 1984).[16]
- 12 September – Linus Okok Okwach, Roman Catholic prelate and former Bishop of Homa Bay (b. 1952).[17]
- 4 October – Rosemary Aluoch, 44, footballer (Kampala Capital City Authority FC, OC Bukavu Dawa, national team).[18]
- 24 October – Nzamba Kitonga, 64, lawyer and politician.[19]
- 3 December – Kiptarus arap Kirior, Kenyan politician, MP (1983–1988, 1992–1997).[20]
- 11 December
- Boniface Kabaka, politician, Senator (since 2017), stroke.[21]
- Joseph Nyagah, 72, politician, COVID-19.[22]
- 18 December – John Obiero Nyagarama, 74, politician, Governor of Nyamira County (since 2013); COVID-19.[23]
- 26 December – Johnson Gicheru, 79, judge, Chief Justice (2003–2011).[24]
- December 27 – Gunga Mwinga, 45, politician, MP (2013–2017).[25]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Rempfer, Kyle (23 January 2020). "101st Airborne deployed to Manda Bay after Al-Shabab attack". Army Times. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
- ^ Bill Roggio (26 February 2020). "AFRICOM kills Shabaab commander behind Manda Bay Airfield attack". Long War Journal. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ "Kenya confirms first coronavirus case - VIDEO". Daily Nation. 13 March 2020.
- ^ "Kenya coronavirus cases rises to 3". Capital News. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "Kenya Wins UN Security Council Seat by 2 Votes | Voice of America - English". www.voanews.com. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ "Kenya wins final contested seat on Security Council". UN News. 2020-06-18. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ "Three people shot dead by Kenyan police at protest". Al Jazeera English. June 26, 2020.
Kenyan police killed three people when they fired at a crowd of motorcycle taxi drivers protesting against the arrest of a colleague for flouting coronavirus restrictions. Police shot at the crowd in the western city of Lesos after clashes on Thursday, a police statement said.
- ^ Kenya Police [@NPSOfficial_KE] (June 25, 2020). "LESOS SHOOTING INCIDENT" (Tweet). Archived from the original on July 6, 2020 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Kenya relief bid begins to avert 'hunger crisis' among poor workers hit by COVID". UN News. 2020-10-30. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
- ^ Schultz, Jeremy (November 16, 2020). "Schools close and student pregnancies rise in lockdown Kenya". msn.com. Reuters. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
- ^ "Kenya to compensate rape victims from violence 13 years ago". AP NEWS. AP. 10 December 2020. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
- ^ Sheikh, Abdi. "Somalia cuts ties with Kenya, shots fired at Mogadishu protests". news.yahoo.com. Yahoo News. Reuters. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
Somalia calls back all its diplomats from Kenya and orders Kenyan diplomats to leave Somalia within seven days.
- ^ "Kenyan man charged with plotting 9/11-style attack on U.S." cbsnews.com. CBS News. December 16, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
- ^ "Majority of Kenyan medical workers on strike amid a pandemic". AP NEWS. 21 December 2020. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
- ^ "Kenya: Al-Shabab kills man taking pregnant wife to hospital". AP NEWS. 30 December 2020. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ Decorated Kenyan taekwondo star collapses and dies in Nairobi
- ^ Retired Homa Bay Catholic Diocese Bishop Linus Okok Okwach dies at 68
- ^ Shock as former Harambee Starlets ace dies
- ^ Mourning Nzamba Kitonga, Kenya's finest lawyer
- ^ Former Belgut MP dies 2 months after another area legislator passed away
- ^ Machakos Senator Boniface Mutinda Kabaka is dead
- ^ Former minister Joe Nyaga is dead
- ^ "Kenya: Nyamira County Governor John Nyagarama Dies in Nairobi". Archived from the original on 2020-12-18. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ Former Chief Justice Evan Gicheru is dead
- ^ Former Kaloleni MP Gunga Mwinga dies