2021 in Kenya

List of events from the year 2021 in Kenya.

Incumbents President: Uhuru Kenyatta

Monthly events Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya

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 locusts. 25 January – Mansur Mohamed Surur is extradited to the United States for smuggling of rhinoceros horns and of elephant ivory valued at more than US$7 million. 28 January – Kenya orders 118 armored Katmerciler Hızır vehicles from Turkey at a price of €60 million (US$73 million). 4 February – Gregory Dow, 61, a Christian missionary from Lancaster, Pennsylvania 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 (UNHCR) to close the Dadaab and the Kakuma refugee camps, home to 410,000 refugees. 25 March – Three DJs 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 and Kenya Savannah Classic (golf) at Karen Country Club in Nairobi 17–22 August — 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships 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, 76, politician and philanthropist.Former President Moi’s aide Hosea Kiplagat dies in Nairobi 15 February – John Oyioka, politician, MP (20172021).Bonchari MP John Oyioka dies after long illness 22 February – Two Rothschild's giraffes; electrocuted 22 March – Lorna Irungu, 50–51, television presenter and media relations executive; COVID-19.Former Nation FM presenter Lorna Irungu succumbs to Covid-19 29 March – Sarah Onyango Obama, 99, educator and philanthropist, grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama; complications from diabetes and a stroke.Mama Sarah Obama is dead 21 July – Gideon Mwiti, 61, politician, diabetes. 8 September - Orie Rogo Manduli, 73, Politician (1960 – 2026).

2021 in Kenya

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