Africa
Other: Kenya Times to say bye after 27 working years.
Kenya Times will finally be closing shop after 27 years of operation, local media reported.
First published on April 5, 1983, the Kenya Times was previously known as Nairobi Times when the title was bought from publisher Hillary Ng'weno.
Five years after its launch, media mogul Robert Maxwell bought 45 per cent stake in the newspaper.
The Kenya Times was the first full colour newspaper in the country as it had the most modern printing press in the region.
A case has been filed in a Nairobi court against the newspaper by former employees seeking their outstanding dues.
In its heyday, KT as it was known, was a feared publication well known for carrying out a roll call in Parliament under its then erstwhile editor-in-chief Philip Ochieng.
The acquisition of shares by the Maxwell group and the launch of a full colour newspaper saw Kenya Times' sales rise to become the second most popular newspaper in the country after the Nation.
But fortunes for the newspaper changed dramatically after the first multiparty elections in Kenya in 1992 when the Kanu party's supremacy started to wane.
