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Major news items of leading Kenyan media outlets

Xinhua, July 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are news highlights of leading Kenyan media outlets on Thursday.

-- Top athletics agent and a coach charged and remanded in police custody as Kenya cracks the whip on doping. Several Kenyan athletics have been banned over the offence. (Daily Nation)

-- Elections agency says it is working on a system that will help curb fraud at the polling centres ahead of 2017 polls. All results will be scanned and uploaded into the server immediately they are signed by party agents. (The Star)

-- Kenyans join Muslim faithful across the East African nation and the world to mark Eid ul Fitr, a celebration that comes at the end of Ramadhan. (The Standard)

-- Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says African immigrants deported from his country are not asylum seekers but job-seekers. The country has been criticized by rights groups for mistreatment of African immigrants. (The East African)

-- Elections commission says it will bar politicians who are perpetrating hate speech from next year's polls. (People Daily) Endit