2020 in Kenya explained

List of events from the year 2020 in Kenya.

Incumbents

• President

Uhuru Kenyatta

Events

• 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

• 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

• 2020 in East Africa
• COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya
• COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
• List of George Floyd protests outside the United States

Notes and References

1. Web site: 101st Airborne deployed to Manda Bay after Al-Shabab attack. Rempfer. Kyle. 23 January 2020. Army Times. 2020-01-23.
2. Web site: AFRICOM kills Shabaab commander behind Manda Bay Airfield attack . Bill Roggio . Long War Journal . 26 February 2020 . 3 March 2020 .
3. News: Kenya confirms first coronavirus case - VIDEO. Daily Nation. 13 March 2020.
4. News: Kenya coronavirus cases rises to 3 . Capital News . 15 March 2020 . 16 March 2020.
5. Web site: Kenya Wins UN Security Council Seat by 2 Votes Voice of America - English. 2020-12-07. www.voanews.com. en.
6. Web site: 2020-06-18. Kenya wins final contested seat on Security Council. 2020-12-07. UN News. en.
7. News: Three people shot dead by Kenyan police at protest . 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. . Al Jazeera English.
8. . LESOS SHOOTING INCIDENT . NPSOfficial_KE . 1276195841687130112 . June 25, 2020 . https://archive.today/20200706111236/https://twitter.com/NPSOfficial_KE/status/1276195841687130112 . July 6, 2020.
9. Web site: 2020-10-30. Kenya relief bid begins to avert 'hunger crisis' among poor workers hit by COVID. 2020-11-23. UN News. en.
10. News: Schultz . Jeremy . Schools close and student pregnancies rise in lockdown Kenya . November 16, 2020 . msn.com . Reuters . November 16, 2020.
11. News: Kenya to compensate rape victims from violence 13 years ago . December 11, 2020 . AP NEWS . AP . 10 December 2020.
12. News: Sheikh . Abdi . Somalia cuts ties with Kenya, shots fired at Mogadishu protests . December 15, 2020 . news.yahoo.com . Reuters . Yahoo News . Somalia calls back all its diplomats from Kenya and orders Kenyan diplomats to leave Somalia within seven days..
13. News: Kenyan man charged with plotting 9/11-style attack on U.S. . December 16, 2020 . cbsnews.com . CBS News . December 16, 2020.
14. News: Majority of Kenyan medical workers on strike amid a pandemic . December 22, 2020 . AP NEWS . 21 December 2020.
15. News: Kenya: Al-Shabab kills man taking pregnant wife to hospital . January 1, 2021 . AP NEWS . 30 December 2020.
16. https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/other-sports/kenyan-olympian-taekwondo-dickson-wamwiri-collapses-dies-nairobi-1933854 Decorated Kenyan taekwondo star collapses and dies in Nairobi
17. https://citizentv.co.ke/news/retired-homa-bay-catholic-diocese-bishop-linus-okok-okwach-dies-at-68-344894/ Retired Homa Bay Catholic Diocese Bishop Linus Okok Okwach dies at 68
18. https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/football/former-harambee-starlets-goalkeeper-rosemary-aluoch-dies-2457124 Shock as former Harambee Starlets ace dies
19. https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2020/10/mourning-nzamba-kitonga-kenyas-finest-lawyer/ Mourning Nzamba Kitonga, Kenya's finest lawyer
20. https://www.tuko.co.ke/394723-former-belgut-mp-dies-2-months-area-legislator-passed-away.html Former Belgut MP dies 2 months after another area legislator passed away
21. https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-12-11-machakos-senator-boniface-mutinda-kabaka-is-dead/ Machakos Senator Boniface Mutinda Kabaka is dead
22. https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-12-11-former-minister-joe-nyaga-is-dead/ Former minister Joe Nyaga is dead
23. Web site: Kenya: Nyamira County Governor John Nyagarama Dies in Nairobi . 2020-12-21 . 2020-12-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201218074919/https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/12/kenya-nyamira-county-governor-john-nyagarama-dies-in-nairobi/ . dead .
24. https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/nairobi/article/2001398334/former-chief-justice-evan-gicheru-is-dead Former Chief Justice Evan Gicheru is dead
25. https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-12-27-former-kaloleni-mp-gunga-mwinga-dies/ Former Kaloleni MP Gunga Mwinga dies