Major news items in leading Kenyan media outlets

News highlights of leading Kenyan media outlets on Tuesday.

-- First phase of mass voter listing ends in Kenya Tuesday ahead of next year's election. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission registers about a million voters out of its four million target. Counties in Nyanza and Central regions record highest registrations (Daily Nation).

President Uhuru Kenyatta's government struggles to fulfil its election pledges four years after it was elected. Government falters in fighting graft and lifting the economy to double digit growth. (The Standard).

-- Financing hitches delay the LAPSSET project, a key infrastructure project linking Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan started in 2012. (The Star)

-- Members of the defunct interim electoral commission defend themselves against taking 514,851 U.S. dollar bribes from British firm Smith and Ouzman, which its directors were jailed in the UK over the fraud. (Business Daily) Endit