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Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

Xinhua, September 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are news highlights in major Kenyan media outlets on Friday.

-- Delayed talks on the exit package of current electoral commissioners stall process to have new officials at the agency in reforms instituted ahead of next year's polls. (Daily Nation)

-- Kenya's Judicial Service Commission picks a new chief justice after a month-long process that saw 11 candidates interviewed. The nominee will now be vetted by Parliament before being appointed by the President. (The Standard)

-- Kenya tells the United Nations meeting in New York that the country is safe for hosting the regional body's sub-Saharan office in Nairobi. (People Daily)

-- Netherlands says it will stop offering Kenya financial aid beginning 2020, citing significant economic growth in the past decade that has turned the East African state into a middle-income country. (Business Daily) Endit