2020 in Kenya
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List of events from the year 2020 in Kenya.
Incumbents
Events
- January 5 – War in Somalia: Camp Simba attack[1][2]
- March 13 – First case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya[3]
- March 15 – Cabinet Secretary for Health, Mutahi Kagwe, announced that two people who had sat next to the initial patient on the aircraft in transit from the United States had also tested positive for the virus.[4]
- June 25 – Kenyan police officers killed three people at a protest in Lesos, Nandi East Sub-County.[5][6]
Deaths
- 6 September – Dickson Wamwiri, Olympic taekwondo practitioner (2008).[7]
- 12 September – Linus Okok Okwach, 67, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Homa Bay (1993–2002), complications from a fall.[8]
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Decorated Kenyan taekwondo star collapses and dies in Nairobi
- ^ Retired Homa Bay Catholic Diocese Bishop Linus Okok Okwach dies at 68