2021 in Kenya

List of events from the year 2021 in Kenya.

Incumbents

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

6 February – Hosea Kiplagat, 76, politician and philanthropist.
15 February – John Oyioka, politician, MP.
22 February – Two Rothschild's giraffes; 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; complications from diabetes and a stroke.
8 September - Orie Rogo Manduli, 73, Politician.