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Top news items in Kenya's major media outlets

Xinhua,April 01, 2018 Adjust font size:

NAIROBI, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The following are the news highlights in Kenyan media outlets on Sunday.

-- The deportation of fiery lawyer Miguna Miguna to Dubai on Wednesday night has put a stern test to opposition leader Raila Odinga's political future only three weeks after he closed ranks with President Uhuru Kenyatta to ease political temperatures in the country. The brutality unleashed on Miguna and his team of lawyers over the three days he was detained at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport has sparked murmurs of discontent in Odinga's camp with allies accusing government of betrayal and asking him to rescind the cooperation. (Sunday Nation)

-- Kenya has suspended the construction of the 700km security wall at the Somali-Mandera border to cool tensions in the region. (The Star)

-- At least six sugar companies in Kenya are dying a slow and painful death chocked by 594 million U.S. dollars debt. The disappearance of sugar cane, their main raw material, has made resuscitation efforts fail. Enditem