Heavy fighting has broken out in Ethiopia's Tigray region according to diplomatic sources. Fears of a crisis that could destabilize the country and spread across the Horn of Africa. Leaders from both sides announced they were at last ready to lay down their arms.
A surprise peace agreement should permit desperately needed humanitarian relief for millions in the region of Tigray—but there are reasons to doubt the grinding conflict is at an end. Britain has a problem that other rich countries do not: its over-50s are flooding out of the labour market. And our correspondent attends an unexpectedly tame “crypto rave”.