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As country after country in the Sahel has fallen prey to coups, President Macky Sall\\u2019s Senegal seemed an outpost of stability. Yet our correspondent finds him less than sanguine about democracy in the region. We sift through what little is known about \\u201cthe Phantom\\u201d, the Hamas fighter behind the attacks in Israel (11:57). And eating steak frites gets political in France (19:47).

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