Charles Onyango-Obbo

The impeachment trial of Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in the National Assembly, particularly the Senate, was a legal and political drama worth $1,000 if it had been a ticketed event.

Caption for the landscape image: Kenya's startup funding has pulled considerably ahead of larger African economies, it being the sixth largest on the continent today.

A political storm has blown up in Uganda over coffee, following a vote to shove regulator Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) into the Ministry of Agriculture in a “rationalisation” exercise to reduce expenditure on state agencies.

Caption for the landscape image: Millions of women and children have been raped and violated so savagely that they are now committing mass suicide to escape the horrors.

What you need to know: War, however, brings its strange bounty, often defying the gruesomeness it has wrought.

If you are a fact checker, the one East African Community (EAC) country where you will catch the least sleep is Kenya.

Kenya reported the highest trust in news in Africa, and the second highest in the world, at 64 per cent.

These two things are true: Ghana's founding father and legendary Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah was a bachelor when he became the country's Prime Minister on March 6, 1957, upon its independence from Britain.

Trump’s African supporters love him not because he did and will do good things, but precisely because he won’t, and despises the continent.

Caption for the landscape image: Botswana's independence party, the Botswana Democratic Party, just got “Kanu-fied”. It lost power in a