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Top news items in Kenya's major media outlets

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NAIROBI, March 22 (Xinhua) -- The following are the news highlights in Kenyan media outlets on Thursday.

-- President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday joined several African leaders in Kigali, Rwanda to sign agreements establishing a free continental trade, free movement of persons, free ownership of property and right of residence anywhere in Africa.

The Pan African dream will facilitate the easing of trade between African nations and the establishment of regional state chains in which inputs are sourced from different countries. The agreement signed by more than 40 African nations is said to be the largest since the creation of World Trade Organization. (Daily Nation)

-- Two campaign videos that were circulating before the Aug. 8 presidential polls have been traced to troubled British firm, Cambridge Analytica. The firm anonymously circulated a negative video targeting opposition leader Raila Odinga and another praising President Uhuru Kenyatta. (The Standard)

-- The underground fault lines in the Kenyan Rift Valley road were caused by floods washing away deep deposits of volcanic ash, the Geological Society of Kenya said, dismissing claims the country is dividing. (The Star)

-- More than half of Kenyans would immediately move to another country if they could, an international polling survey has found. (Business Daily) Enditem