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Top news items in Kenya's major media outlets

Xinhua,January 27, 2018 Adjust font size:

NAIROBI, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in Kenya's major media outlets on Saturday.

-- Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta eventually ended his long delay in forming his Cabinet by nominating a 21-member line-up.

Kenyatta named a team of 15 men and six women he believes will enable him a legacy under the four-point agenda that he has identified as ensuring food security, affordable housing, universal healthcare and industrialization.

The move ended speculation that he would accommodate the Opposition, whose leaders have been clamoring for dialogue. (Saturday Nation)

-- Opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) on Friday continued their sustained claim to a stolen election insisting that their leader Raila Odinga won the annulled Aug. 8 polls presidential polls. NASA claimed Odinga beat President Kenyatta by 200,000 votes. (Standard on Saturday)

-- President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Friday evening for an African Union summit on governance. (The Star) Enditem