Stacey Abrams makes education and health care priority

Bayelsa: Oshiomhole blows hot, says PDP candidate cannot be sworn in

APC deputy governorship candidate in Bayelsa breaks silence.

Zamafara gubernatorial: Supreme Court reserves judgment on APC’s application

Bayelsa Guber: Tribunal dismisses party's request to join gov candidate, Opuma's petition

The coronavirus vaccine candidate was approved for a global trial of 30,000 participants, according to the CEO of Biontech, Ugur Sahin. Biotechnology firms across the globe are racing to find a vaccine or vaccines.

Democratic nominee for US President Joe Biden attends a Hispanic Heritage Month event, plays and dances to the 2017 Latin juggernaut "Despacito".

The shooting of Colombian ex-presidential candidate Alvaro Gomez Hurtado in 1995 was widely thought to be the work of his political rivals. But in a letter to a special court for peace, FARC says it was behind the hit.

Supporters of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) greet the candidate of the opposition party Cellou Dalein Diallo in Conakry. Diallo has just returned from an election tour in the center of the country.

Uganda votes for a new president in January. Popular musician and challenger Bobi Wine wants to build a united coalition. In his way is President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled with an iron fist for over three decades.

In our first edition for 2021, we take a look at the American political powerhouse otherwise known as Stacey Abrams who spent a decade working to promote the Democratic vote in Georgia and flipped the state to blue. Plus the French cabinet has given the green light for draft legislation targeting radical Islam that includes a crackdown on forced marriages. Annette Young talks to Natacha Henry, a French specialist on gender-based violence about the best ways to end the practice.

Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was doing a live radio interview with Kenya's Hot 96 FM station when the reported raid took place. Ugandan authorities are yet to comment.