The Intelligence: meeting Senegal’s president
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As country after country in the Sahel has fallen prey to coups, President Macky Sall’s 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 “the Phantom”, the Hamas fighter behind the attacks in Israel (11:57). And eating steak frites gets political in France (19:47).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm currently out of office. |
| 0:04.4 | An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break. |
| 0:14.4 | So I've gone to Barbados for a month for science. |
| 0:22.4 | Yours, Toby. |
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| 1:06.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:16.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Many call Muhammad Daph the Phantom because he operates so effectively in the shadows. |
| 1:26.6 | He transformed Hamas from a cluster of terrorist cells |
| 1:30.0 | into a force capable of invading Israel. |
| 1:33.3 | Our correspondent lays out what little more is known about him. |
| 1:38.5 | And there aren't many dinners more typically French than steak-friete. |
| 1:43.3 | The meat and potatoes par excellence. |
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