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Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

Xinhua, May 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

Following are the highlights of leading Kenyan media outlets on Wednesday.

-- Trouble looms in Opposition coalition Cord after MPs threaten to ditch it if leader Raila Odinga's 2013 running Kalonzo Musyoka is not appointed the presidential flag bearer. (Daily Nation)

-- Rescuers make a miraculous save of a seven-month-old baby from a six-storey building that collapsed four days ago in Nairobi, bringing cheer and hope to many. At least 23 bodies have been retrieved from the building and 95 are still missing. (The Standard)

-- Kenya's economy grows 5.6 percent and creates over 800,000 jobs in 2015, according to government agency. (Business Daily)

-- Deputy President William Ruto accuses International Criminal Court staff of seeking sexual favours from witnesses and their families in exchange for fabricated evidence against him in a case that collapsed. Ruto wants the staff prosecuted. (The Star)

-- Police avert a major biological terror attack using anthrax virus by Kenyan and Ugandan medical students linked to Al-Shabaab. (People Daily) Endit