Daily Wrap: Evening Edition

“The release of Ethiopia’s best-known political prisoner, Birtukan Mideksa,” argues The Economist, “seems to have been calculated to distract attention from a reshuffle of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).” This is a unique take.

“Let’s be grown up about this,” David Rieff writes on The New Republic. “Ethiopia is a tyranny. It was a dictatorship under Haile Selassie, and then under the Derg, and it remains one under the regime of Meles Zenawi.”

There is no place where Human Rights Watch’s report on aid abuse by the Ethiopia government triggered so much buzz as the UK. Increase in foreign aid by the Tory government despite its general spending cut has already attacked by conservative backbenchers. Here , Here and Here. For questions is Canada here.