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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has taken drastic steps to quieten a state stacked with trained militias. The conflict could draw in more states\u2014or the whole of the Horn of Africa. China\u2019s increasing push for self-reliance in a globalised economy has its complications\u2014made clear by a vast influx of precision-bred super-chickens. And the macabre tale of books bound with human skin.

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