Top news items in Kenya's major media outlets
Xinhua,January 15, 2018 Adjust font size:
NAIROBI, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The following are the news highlights in Kenyan media outlets on Monday.
-- Opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) will meet on Monday to try and stem out divisions' surrounding the planned swearing-in of leader Raila Odinga as the people's president and complaints from affiliate parties.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of a simmering war triggered by the sharing of parliamentary leadership positions. At the heart of the wrangling is what some partners deem as unsatisfactory sharing of the positions, some of committees which are used to check government spending. (The Standard)
-- Learning in public universities could be paralyzed again this semester following disagreements between union and their employers over salary negotiations. (Daily Nation)
-- Three radical and systematic amendments to a critical police law have given President Uhuru Kenyatta a stronghold over the police, with critics faulting that the changes are against the constitution. (The Star)
-- Kenya has made a U-turn and revived plans to build its first natural gas-fired power plant in Mombasa after the dropping the project in 2016. (Business Daily) Enditem