On This Week, Guinea witnessed a coup against Alpha Condé. We discuss the proliferation of coups and coup attempts, as well as the implications for democracy. At the center of the debate is how well are the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities doing with deterring not just condemning coups? The debate brings great disagreements among the co-hosts. Also, on This Week, Tanzania accepts a loan from the International Monetary Fund for COVID-19 mitigation efforts and to support the economy, and insects are being used as a sustainable option for animal food.

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Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan recently shared her thoughts about women on the Tanzanian football team and their prospects for marriage, with mixed reactions from the players and gender rights activists. Then, in South Africa, Roemello Shembe works to merge his passion for fighting gang culture with entrepreneurship in Eldorado Park. Finally, a trial opens to examine "hidden debts" accrued in Mozambique. We discuss these top stories from the week's news on this episode of This Week.

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This week activists announced a boycott of the United Nations Food Systems Summit. Despite the UN's efforts to suggest that the summit will be inclusive and give voice to small-scale farmers, many farmers and farm workers associations believe that the summit will represent dominant stakeholders in food systems. Large agricultural businesses control global food systems from feed to seed. But, has this yielded resilient food systems and an end to hunger? Summits are the story of the week. This week saw a controversy involving the President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera. The pastor turned president came to office on an anti-corruption platform, but now Chakwera is facing claims of nepotism as he travels to the virtual Global Education Summit. Finally, Tunisia's president Kais Saied suspends the Tunisian parliament in a burgeoning political crisis that threatens the normal constitutional order in the country.

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