The peace deal should expedite the delivery of humanitarian aid to Tigray. But it is very much early days and we don't know how this will be implemented, whether it will be implemented at all. What seems to have been agreed looks more like the terms of surrender on the part of the Tigrayans than a peace agreement where both sides make concessions.
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”.
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