Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

NAIROBI, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are the news highlights in Kenyan media outlets on Sunday.

-- Shock and confusion gripped Cabinet Secretaries and their principal assistants as it emerged President Uhuru Kenyatta could have lost confidence in more than three quarters of the ministers.

His decision to fire 13 ministers painted an image of impending bloodbath for other senior officers as he moves to form a government that he hopes would deliver on his legacy promises. In naming the new officials, the president had shown a major departure from the past where loyalty, regional balance and friendship was rewarded. (Standard on Sunday)

-- Kenya denies claims that it has given political asylum to a former powerful Zimbabwean cabinet minister. Government spokesman Eric Kiraithe said reports that Jonathan Moyo was in the country as a political refugee were untrue. (Sunday Nation)

-- Uganda plans to refocus its efforts on revamping its metre gauge railway in the medium term as Kenya's delay in raising financing for Kisumu-Malaba leg of its standard gauge railway will make Uganda to defer its plans for at least three years. (The East African) Enditem