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Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

Xinhua, July 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

News highlights of leading Kenyan media outlets on Thursday.

-- Clerics and the Attorney General tell a parliamentary committee to send the electoral agency officials home to save the country. The Attorney General also called for postponement of the 2017 polls by a year for better preparations. (Daily Nation)

-- Kenya asked to negotiate bilateral-trade deals alone with developed countries after Uganda and Tanzania pulled out of a regional pact. The three nations initially negotiated for European Union trade as a bloc. (The Standard)

-- A study shows that Kenya has had the fastest growing number of new HIV rate infections in sub-Saharan Africa in the last 10 years. (The Star)

-- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development meeting in Nairobi closer to a deal on a final declaration as intense lobbying continued on the wording of the text. (Business Daily) Endit