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Top news items in Kenya's major media outlets

Xinhua, May 11, 2017 Adjust font size:

The following are the news highlights in Kenyan media outlets on Thursday.

-- The electoral agency will on Thursday start the process to remove of 2.9 million ghost voters from its register. (Daily Nation)

-- President Uhuru Kenyatta has said the Kenya Defence Forces will continue to be part of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) and will not leave the country as doing so would be a threat to the stability of Kenya and her neighbours. (The Standard)

-- Kenya's failure to develop more hydropower stations has continued its downward slide on Africa's list of top hydroelectricity producers as Ethiopia shoots to position one for the first time. (Business Daily)

-- Investigators from the Global Fund have camped in Nairobi to probe whether any of their grants to Kenya may have been embezzled. Global Fund finances most of Kenya's HIV, malaria and tuberculosis programs. (The Star)

-- President Uhuru Kenyatta met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi yesterday as part of his campaign to bolster trade, immigration and security cooperation with the Northern Africa powerhouse. (People Daily) Endit