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Top news items of leading Kenyan media outlets

Xinhua, September 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Kenyan convicts jailed in Hong Kong over drug trafficking send remorseful letters back home as they protest their innocence, asking their countrymen to be wary of traffickers. (Daily Nation)

-- Kenya to donate 5 million U.S. dollars to the Global Fund kitty on Sept. 15 at a health summit in Canada to fight HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis. (The Standard)

-- Opposition leader Raila Odinga says he will not impose himself on his coalition supporters after his party endorsed him to be their presidential candidate. The move has rattled his partners in the coalition. (The Star)

-- Value of luxury homes targeting local and foreign wealthy individuals in Nairobi rises by 40 percent in five years as cost of land increases amid surge in demand. (Business Daily)

-- Security agents thwart terror attack at a police station in the tourist town of Mombasa by three women suspected to be Al-Shabaab followers. The three were gunned down. (People Daily) Endit