• The stories making headlines in the Star this morning.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will be in Mombasa for two days starting tomorrow.
Museveni and President Uhuru Kenyatta will hold bilateral talks and tour the Port of Mombasa.
Here are the other stories making headlines in the Star this morning.
Today's top stories in the Star. See stories https://goo.gl/N2kQpH
Jubilee MPs want to meet Uhuru over emerging divisions
Some Jubilee MPs are pushing for a Parliamentary Group meeting ahead of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s State of the Nation address next Thursday.
They say the Jubilee house is burning, they have burning questions and they must have answers.
Calls for a meeting came as some anti-DP William Ruto lawmakers began to threaten to impeach Ruto for openly contradicting the President.
Rivers dry up after destruction of Mau Forest
The magnitude of encroachment on the Maasai Mau forest is massive, the Star can now reveal.
A flight over the forest on March 21 revealed the extent of the damage on the forest which was once Kenya's largest closed‐canopy forest ecosystem.
The damage has already rendered most rivers dry, affecting millions who rely on the water catchment area.
Coast leaders blame Uhuru for corruption
Corruption in the Jubilee administration is the biggest threat to the Coast’s prosperity, the region's leaders have said.
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho and his Kilifi counterpart Amason Kingi led legislators in denouncing what they called rampant corruption in the Jubilee administration.
They said the theft of public resources has made most Coast residents poor and hopeless.
A little patch of heaven in Turkana
Arid, sandy, scorching Turkana is in the news because of deaths and drought, which happen every year. But here's a good news story.
Turkana south has plenty of food and irrigation has made the parched earth bloom.
Towering green maize, sorghum, cotton cowpeas, green grams, tomatoes, sukuma wiki, kale, watermelon, bananas and more.
Self-confessed killer to be sentenced in April
A man who confessed to murdering a Mombasa businessman will be sentenced on April 8.
Judge Erick Ogola said Ngira Karisa, who pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering Isaack Kassim, will be sentenced in accordance to the plea bargaining agreement and submissions by the prosecution.