Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

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

-- Teachers today hope to strike a deal with the government which will give them a 300 percent basic salary increase. But the government is expected to offer them a lower percentage. (Daily Nation)

-- More than 1.3 million Kenyans are facing starvation and are in dire need of relief food. So bad is the situation that livestock have started dying in large numbers at the Coast and northern parts of the country. (The Star)

-- Relief as national carrier Kenya Airways pilots suspend a planned industrial action that was scheduled to begin Tuesday. Officials of the Kenya Airlines Pilots Association announced Monday evening that their day-long negotiations held with various government ministries had yielded a compromise on their demands, which include resignation of company bosses. (The Standard)

-- Malnutrition threatens to scuttle Kenya's economic ambitions and is estimated to cost between three and 16 percent of gross domestic product annually. (People Daily) Endit