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Tonight on Africa 54: Burkina Faso’s military leader, Paul-Henri Damiba, is sworn in as president weeks after a successful coup; VOA speaks to former Ghanaian President and African Union chairperson John Kufuor about the rise in military coups in West Africa; A South African judge dismisses former President Jacob Zuma’s bid to stop a trial against him. Stay tuned for this and more.

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, host Haydé Adams and her guests look at "informal" [non-planned, non-approved] housing and explore how targeted urban planning can improve living conditions. Guests include Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Buwa Binitie, a property developer in Washington D.C. and urban economist Astrid Haas.