1 February – A gas truck explodes in a residential area of Nairobi, killing three people and injuring 297 others.[1]
March
March–May – 2024 Kenya floods: At least 238 people are killed nationwide in floods.[2]
1 March – President William Ruto announces an agreement with Haiti to deploy 1,000 police officers in a mission approved by the United Nations to combat gang violence in the Caribbean nation.[3]
24 May – Five miners are killed after an illegal gold mine collapses in Dabel, Marsabit County.[11]
June
7 June – Four construction workers are killed in a gun attack on a hospital site near the Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County.[12]
13 June – A judge is injured in a shooting inside a courtroom in Nairobi. The gunman, a disgruntled senior police commander, is shot dead by responding police.[13]
8 July – A Kenyan court rules that the 2022 killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif by police in Nairobi was unlawful and orders the Kenyan government to pay 10 million Kenyan shillings ($78,000) as compensation to his family.[23]
11 July – President Ruto dismisses his cabinet, with only prime cabinet secretary and concurrent foreign minister Musalia Mudavadi and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua ordered to remain in place.[24]
The bodies of six females are found in a quarry near the Mukuru kwa Njenga slum of Nairobi.[25] The prime suspect is arrested and confesses to killing 42 women on 15 July. Another man is also arrested.[26]
16 July – Clashes break out nationwide between Kenya Police and antigovernment protestors calling for the removal of President Ruto.[27]
19 July – President Ruto reappoints six ministers whom he had dismissed on 11 July.[28]
31 July – Authorities declare an outbreak of mpox after a traveler transiting from Uganda to Rwanda tests positive for the disease at a border crossing in the south of the country.[31]
At least 21 students are killed and 27 others are injured in a fire at a primary school in Nyeri County. Around 70 students are reported missing.[36][37]
11 September – A strike is held by employees of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi against plans to lease the airport to the Adani Group of India.[38] The agreement is subsequently cancelled by the Kenyan government in November.[39]
13 September – Germany and Kenya agree on a labour migration deal which will see 250,000 skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers go work in Germany amid a shortage of skilled labour in the German economy. The agreement will also simplify the return of illegal migrants to Kenya.[40]
21 September – President Ruto visits Haiti to inspect the Kenyan peacekeeping contingent.[41]
17 October – Following a majority vote by the Senate, Rigathi Gachagua is removed as Vice President after being convicted of five of the 11 charges laid against him during his impeachment.[45]
18 October –
President Ruto appoints interior minister Kithure Kindiki as the new deputy president. However, his appointment is suspended that same day after the High Court orders a temporary halt to Rigathi Gachagua's removal pending an appeal.[46]
A British national and six Turks are abducted in different locations in Nairobi.[47] The Kenyan foreign ministry later says that four of those missing were Turkish refugees believed to be members of the Gülen movement who were repatriated at Ankara's request.[48]
November
1 November – Kithure Kindiki is inaugurated as deputy president after a court upholds the impeachment of his predecessor Rigathi Gachagua.[49]
December
4 December – Jackton Odhiambo is convicted for the 2023 murder of LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba in Eldoret.[50] He is sentenced to 50 years imprisonment on 16 December.[51]
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