Charles Onyango-Obbo

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

East Africans talk about railways far more than they build them, but at least it is dreaming.

Caption for the landscape image: Just over a week ago, veteran Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye and his long-term ally Haji Obeid

On November 5, as anxious Americans headed to the polls to decide what to do with Donald Trump (in the end, they elected him president again), something tucked away in a wire story from war-ravaged Sudan struck me profoundly.