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Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

Xinhua, January 20, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- More than 2 million Kenyans are on the brink of starvation and need relief food by the end of the month, the government said Thursday. Currently, some 1.5 million people in different parts of the country require urgent assistance.

The government says it will reduce relief food distribution by 50 percent in favor of cash transfers. Kenya is facing a food crisis following failed rains last year. (Daily Nation)

-- Opposition leader Raila Odinga told new electoral commissioners to clean up the voters' register, noting that it has more than 1.5 million dead voters. Odinga said the register is tainted and cannot guarantee free and fair elections. (The Star)

-- Kenyans are headed for tougher times as the economy takes a hit from the raging drought that is expected to drive up prices of basic goods and services, eating deeper into household budgets. (Business Daily)

-- Rising tea and coffee export prices will help offset the impact of a drought that has been hurting Kenya's agriculture since last year after poor rains. (The Standard)

-- Operations in public universities were paralysed as lecturers and non-teaching staff downed their tools Thursday, joining doctors who have been on strike for the past 48 days. (People Daily) Endit