A web of deliberate confusion and propaganda has been spread over the rebellion, and has made thicker with each of the three regional meetings held in the last 10 days: in Victoria Falls, Addis Ababa and Mauritius.
The African Union announced the move on Saturday on the closing day of a summit of AU leaders in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
North of Addis Ababa we took a hard, dusty mountain road to the ancient holy city of Lalibela and marvelled at the monolithic cave churches hewn from bare rock.
In July, heads of state and government ministers will meet in Addis Ababa to discuss how to pay for the sustainable development goals, which will replace the millennium development goals when they expire at the end of the year.
Pioneering community-based walking holidays in the Ethiopian highlands, organised by Tesfa, an NGO based in Addis Ababa.
The country has dozens of great journeys, but a trip east from Addis Ababa to Harar is the pick of the bunch.
That has financial implications, hence the importance of the summit in Addis Ababa next month.
The donor community is gearing up for the UN's Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa in July, which will need to address funding for the sustainable development goals (SDGs), scheduled to be introduced at the end of the year.
Addis Ababa and Dakar, which come in at No 10 and 9, have some positive developments to note, says the UN.
The summit in Bavaria will be followed by three global summits in the second half of 2015: the first in Addis Ababa will look at financing for development; the second in New York in September will set the United Nation's sustainable development goals for the next 15 years; the third in Paris in December will seek a legally binding deal on climate change agreed to by every nation.
It's likely you'll be taking the bus for much of the 350-mile journey from Addis Ababa to Harar as the train service to nearby Dire Dawa is currently intermittent, unreliable or suspended, depending on who you talk to.
