Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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

Canada's snap election campaign isn't going as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had planned.

He thought it would be a good time to strengthen his party's position, but instead he might be putting an end to his eight years in power.

And in the country of Georgia, there's been a bias against daughters that goes back centuries, a preference

that led to many sex-selective abortions. That trend is at last changing, but for now,

the country has a troubling dearth of girls.

First up, though, Guinea has just been kicked out of Ecoz, the economic community of West African states, after military leaders staged a coup over the weekend. Speaking after an emergency Ecozawa summit, Burkina Faso's foreign minister, AlphaBari,

insisted that all those arrested during the coup be kept safe.

We've exigued the respect of the integrity physical of President Alfa Condé and

of all the people arrested.

The liberation immediate of President Alfa Condé and that President Alpha Condé be released immediately.

Soldiers had detained him after storming a government building in Connacry, Guinea's capital.

Videos showed the 83-year-old Mr. Condé surrounded and looking stunned. Colonel Mamadhi Dumboya, the head of Guinea Special Forces and the apparent coup leader,

took to national television, declaring the Constitution and the government dissolved. We have decided, at the

instant, to dissude the constitution.

On Monday, he said a government of national unity would be formed within weeks.

Whether that will mean better governance for a country in desperate need of it is an open question,

as is just how long Africa's renewed trend of such coups will continue. Cus are always surprising

to some degree, but certainly to some Guineans and people watching Guinea, this was perhaps not such a shock.

Kinley-Samon is an Africa correspondent for the economist.

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