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Outside in • Serge Halimi, 24 December 2018 In a scoop on 27 November, the Guardian revealed that Paul Manafort, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, had met As*ange in London three times: in 2013, 2015 and 2016. → Alexis Spire, December 2018 It was government policies that put the tax debate centre stage; as the poorer saw one law for the rich, their sense of injustice grew. Now Emmanuel Macron has had to concede that people’s anger is (...) Outside in • Pierre Souchon, 24 December 2018 The world wants to know how the protests in France got together. In Ardèche, it turns out that organisation, like the protestors’ politics, is mostly unstructured, the meetings often just talking A selection of archives related to this month’s edition. → Outside in • Tanya Goudsouzian, 24 December 2018 Washington’s precarious strategy of trying to triangulate two sworn enemies as allies has come to a head in the Middle East. To general surprise. And to the advantage of Russia, Iran, and of course Turkey. … SYRIA, inside Roja*a; MAGHREB’s old, sick leaders won’t go; HUMAN RIGHTS at 70; US, faces of the midterms; who’s NEW ORLEANS for? ECUADOR, sharp turn right; VENEZUELA, what next? KENYA, digital boom but where’s the money? CAMEROON between French and English speakers; CHAGOS islanders can’t go home; CYBERCRIME’s cost; MIGRATION and its music… Akram Belkaïd, December 2018   Algeria has an aged, ailing president; Morocco, a king in poor health who is abroad much of the time; and Tunisia, a president so old and frail he spends just a few hours a day on state business. These men Sabine Cessou, December 2018   Almost one Kenyan in three uses mobile phone banking to handle money. But despite government aims to make the country Africa’s ‘digital hub’, the economy remains unequal and unproductive. →. PODCAST: SABINE CESSOU ON KENYA’S GRAND DIGITAL AMBITIONS. Franklin Ramírez Gallegos, December 2018   Lenín Moreno was elected Ecuador’s president promising to continue