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!