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Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

Xinhua, May 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

News highlights of leading Kenyan media outlets on Friday.

-- Electoral agency commissioners tell Opposition Cord that they will not vacate office over claims that they are favoring the ruling coalition Jubilee. (Daily Nation)

-- Joy as four were rescued alive from the rubble of a six-storey building that collapsed six days ago in Huruma, east of Nairobi. (The Standard)

-- Rise in food prices hit urban poor harder as drop in prices of fuel and electricity cut the cost of living for the rich, according to the 2016 Economic Survey. (Business Daily)

-- The National Construction Authority to demolish 204 unsafe residential buildings in Nairobi starting Friday. This follows the collapse of a six-storey building. (The Star)

-- Rejection of a Bill that was to enhance gender parity in Parliament opens door for citizens to move to court to seek the dissolution of the House on grounds that MPs have failed in the constitutional mandate to pass the legislation, which has a constitutional deadline of Aug. 27. (People Daily) Endit