Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Something unusual is going on in Britain's labor force that isn't happening in other

rich countries.

People at the older end of their working lives are disproportionately dropping out.

We ask why.

And when you hear the phrase, Crypto Rave, after you stop shuttering, what do you think

of?

Sweaty, half-clothes programmers hopped up on substances of dubious legality?

Well our correspondent attended one and found it a surprisingly sedate affair.

But first, after almost exactly two years of civil war in Ethiopia, a seemingly sweeping

peace deal has been reached.

The conflict started with long brewing tensions between the federal government led by Prime

Minister Abiy Ahmed and the leaders of the Northern region of Tigray, the Tigrayan

people's liberation front or TPLF.

The TPLF had been ousted from their influential position in government.

A scuffle about elections taking place during the pandemic led to a full-on military campaign

against the TPLF.

Heavy fighting has broken out in Ethiopia's Tigray region according to diplomatic sources

and the rising fears of a crisis that could destabilize the country and spread across

the fall of Africa.

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