• The stories making headlines in the Star this morning.
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Kenyans are now paying more for their popular ugali meal after the cost of a two-kilogramme packet of maize flour rose by between Sh10 and Sh20.
The situation is likely to get worse in the coming weeks due to an acute shortage of maize after harvest interruptions and drop in imports.
Here are the other stories making headlines in the Star this morning.
41 Rift MPs, 4 governors threaten Uhuru over Mau
Forty-one MPs and four governors have threatened unspecified action "if the government continues to force our people" out of the Mau forest.
The leaders issued an ultimatum to President Uhuru Kenyatta demanding that he declares his stand on the ongoing evictions or they seek legal action against the state.
Slain Katani woman, husband split over love triangle — Cops
The slain Machakos millionaire trader had separated from her husband over a love triangle, the Star has learnt.
A police source confided that Purity Wanjiru, 35, a liquor trader, and her husband Fredrick Mwangi were trying to patch up their differences. They had reunited only weeks before the murder in which Wanjiru and her mother Ann Gatiti were shot dead by a hired gunman, the source said.
4th 'widow' to ex-Equity CEO wants body exhumed for DNA
It's yet another battle of the widows over sizeable estates.
One of the four women left behind by former Equity Bank CEO John Kagema said on Tuesday she wants his body exhumed to obtain DNA samples to settle a paternity case.
Chinese eye Mombasa-Nairobi expressway as US ditch project
Construction of the 485-kilometre Mombasa-Nairobi Expressway is now at limbo following the decision by the US government to pull out over inflated costs of the project amid under dealings.
The Transport Ministry and Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) yesterday confirmed the government is looking for another investor, with the Chinese hinted to be top contenders for the multi-billion project.
How fish farming is helping Kwale village improve lives
The Tsunza village of Kwale county sits on a peninsula, a coastal geographical feature which endows the community with a lush mangrove belt surrounding it almost on all sides.
Because of the mangrove cover, Tsunza enjoys the aquatic resources that come with the prominent presence of the very marine resource that provides a breeding ground for fish and other sea creatures.