Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

COVID-19 has crippled the restaurant industry, but would-be diners have missed out too.

What is it that makes eating out so compelling, so transporative? There are more reasons

than you've had hot dinners, and we take a look at them.

And it's 15,000 kilometers between China and the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador.

Yet having cleared out their own waters, Chinese fishing vessels just keep coming, threatening

the archipelago's bounty of often endangered species.

At first, in Mali this week, mutinous soldiers toppled the country's president, Ibrahim

Bubakar Kata. The coup came after weeks of protests against a disputed election, and

the government's handling of a violent Islamist insurgency.

In the capital's heaving independent square, they chanted Kata step down and listen to

your people.

On Tuesday, soldiers arrested Mr. Kata, who announced his resignation in a video later

that day.

He asked, do I really have a choice? Explaining that he did not want blood to be shed.

The following day, the new Huntah promised to restore stability and oversee a transition

to election.

In news of the outstair came, there were scenes of jubilation among opposition supporters.

But outside Mali, condemnation of the coup has been swift. Such instability can tend to

spread, and neighboring countries are worried.

If you were going to pick a country likely to have a coup, I think Mali would have been

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