French presidential race: Juppé to the rescue?

A court has found a prominent anti-corruption campaigner and Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, guilty of embezzlement, now apparently blocked from campaigning in next year's presidential election.

French presidential candidate Francois Fillon will remain in the race, saying he won’t quit, even as judges plan to charge him with misuse of public funds.

Conservative candidate François Fillon is facing major defections from his camp, this after vowing to stay in the presidential race despite a probe into alleged fake jobs.

Female lawyer, Eunice Atuejide, joins presidential race.

Senator David Mark joins the presidential race, picks PDP nomination form.

Nigeria's top female candidate quits presidential race.

Oby Ezekwesili dances with supporters after withdraw from the presidential race.

Bernie Sanders, an Independent Senator from Vermont, announced his second bid for the White House, seeking the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential race.

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First the US president caught Covid-19, then he was hospitalised and then... he went for a car ride? Donald Trump says he has "learned a lot" about Covid over the past few days. We ask our panel about it and whether his illness will once and for all end the argument over social distancing.

Celebrities react on social media as Biden wins presidential race

It's a tight race in Ghana as voters wait to hear if their president has won a second term, or if a former president will return to the top job. Also, Ethiopians living abroad are unable to get in touch with their families in the Tigray region and fear the worst. FRANCE 24 spoke to members of the Tigray community in Paris. And lawmakers in DR Congo fight and throw chairs amid a political power struggle. The president is trying to get his party in control of parliament and toss out allies of his predecessor.