Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

The following are news highlights in Kenyan media outlets on Wednesday:

-- Opposition leaders met in Nairobi and vowed to stay united as they move closer to forming a super alliance through which they would field one candidate to face President Uhuru Kenyatta.

The alliance, which brings together four leaders, presents the most credible challenge to ruling Jubilee's quest for re-election in August next year's poll.

The leaders also faulted President Kenyatta for saying that his government would push for Kenya's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. (Daily Nation)

-- Hopes that the ongoing doctors' strike would be called off were dashed after meeting between union officials and government flopped Tuesday.

There seems to be no end to the crisis currently on its tenth day as doctors threatened that they would all resign from the government if it does not honor their demand for pay rise. (The Standard)

-- Traders from Kenya are exporting maize to South Sudan via Uganda in what is likely to worsen the food situation in the country after production decline. (Business Daily) Endit