Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

The following are news highlights in Kenyan media outlets on Saturday.

-- Electoral commission announces that it will register new voters starting January next year in an exercise that targets some 6.7 million people. The month-long listing will run from Jan. 15 to Feb. 16 as the commission makes a final push ahead of next August polls.

Also to be registered will be voters in the diaspora starting from Feb. 16 to 21. Thereafter, the commission will open the voters' register for verification of the biometrics data for 30 days. In February, the agency failed to hit its target of four million voters during registration, getting only 1.2 million voters. (Saturday Nation)

-- Opposition Cord on Friday skipped talks on elections and politics organized by the business community accusing the investors' lobby group of pushing the ruling coalition Jubilee agenda. (Standard on Saturday)

-- Kenya Defence Forces get six helicopters worth 11 million U.S. dollars from the U.S. government to help fight terrorism in the country and across the region. (The Star)

-- Tanzania likely to break pledge to support Kenya's Foreign minister for the African Union Commission chairperson after Chad President Idriss Deby visits the country to drum up support for its candidate. (The East African) Endit