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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Mali's military leader about the coup in Niger – as Nigeriens call for the mass recruitment of volunteers as the junta faces a possible ECOWAS invasion. Former U.S. President Donald Trump is indicted in connection with efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat – we’ll have a report. And in our technology report, a Ghanaian banker leaves her corporate job to launch and afterschool center in Accra where children learn coding and robotics. All this and much more coming up on today’s Africa 54!

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, Zimbabwe and Gabon are holding critical elections in August. In Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangawa and main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa are both promising to tackle to the dire economic situation. In Gabon, longtime President Ali Bongo Ondimba says he "more ready than ever" for a third term. The opposition refers to him as a "dynastic power." Host Haydé Adams speaks to Blessing Zulu, VOA Zimbabwe reporter, Chipo Dendere, assistant professor of africana studies at Wellesley College and Idrissa Fall, VOA French to Africa reporter.