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The world in 2020

Guardian reporters around the world preview the year ahead

2 January 2020

  • Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel

    Can Merkel and Macron get Franco-German relations back on track?

    As a year of big EU decisions begins, the bloc’s most important relationship is stuck in a rut

31 December 2019

  • Vera Daves de Sousa, 34, is finance minister in Angola, where politics was previously dominated by elderly men, many of them veterans of the long civil war

    Africa's young leaders face a testing 2020

    Politicians in their 30s and 40s face huge hurdles in sweeping away decades-old regimes

30 December 2019

  • In this Dec. 9, 2019 photo, an anti-government demonstrator is sprayed by a police water cannon during a protest in Santiago, Chile. Student protests have become a nationwide call for socio-economic equality and better social services, so far forcing Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to increase benefits for the poor and disadvantaged and start a process of constitutional reform. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

    Latin America's tumultuous year turns expectations on their head

    2020 could bring another year of turmoil for Latin America after the dramatic events of 2019 from the Caribbean to Chile

29 December 2019

  • *** BESTPIX *** TOPSHOT-SYRIA-TURKEY-CONFLICT-KURDS<br>TOPSHOT - Kurdish Syrian civilians flee the town of Kobane on the Turkish border on October 16, 2019 as Turkey and its allies continue their assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria. - Turkey rebuffed international pressure to curb its military offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria today as US President Donald Trump dispatched his deputy Mike Pence to Ankara to demand a ceasefire. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP) (Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

    US isolationism leaves Middle East on edge as new decade dawns

    With Trump deciding against protecting allies, old rivalries are converging across the region

28 December 2019

  • China’s president, Xi Jinping

    China's leaders seeking to 'draw strength from weakness' in 2020

    Faced with problems at home and abroad, Beijing will seek to boost nationalist sentiment by blaming foreign influences
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