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Top news items of leading Kenyan media outlets

Xinhua, July 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Electoral commission bosses say they are ready to quit office as the atmosphere is so poisoned that they cannot preside over the next General Election. Public confidence in the institution has gone down. (Daily Nation)

-- International community issues a 12-hour ultimatum to President Salva Kiir and deputy Riek Machar to recall their troops or face unspecified consequences after meeting in Nairobi Tuesday over the spiralling South Sudan war. (The Standard)

-- President Uhuru Kenyatta urges more Indian companies to invest in Kenya to narrow trade imbalance between the East African and Asian nations. (The Star)

-- Kenya on a new executive recruitment path as it picks a Norwegian national to head an airport authority agency. (Business Daily)

-- Kenya angered by a new report indicating that doping is rife in camps in Eldoret as Sports Cabinet Secretary questions the timing of the claims just before the Olympics games. (People Daily) Endit