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Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

Xinhua, October 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Electoral commission insists it is ready for next year's August polls even as search for new commissioners is yet to begin after the resignation of current officials. (Sunday Nation)

-- Opposition leader Raila Odinga declares his alliance Cord is united although it appears it is headed for a split as leaders jostle for the presidential flagbearer. (The Sunday Standard)

-- The government to spend up to 15 million U.S. dollars to refurbish the dormant petroleum refinery at the Coast to handle crude oil for export from basins in Turkana, in the north starting June next year. (The Star)

-- Uganda and Rwanda traders who lost goods during Kenya's 2008 post-election violence put pressure on the country as they seek for compensation. A Tanzanian trader was last week awarded 819,500 dollars for compensation. (The East African) Endit