Daily Wrap: The Economist Compares EPRDF to the Dergue

-The Economist finally dares to mention the “D” word. “Yet today, after suppression of opposition following the election in 2005 and a rigged poll earlier this year, life in Ethiopia is more akin to the days of the “Derg” regime, overthrown by the EPRDF in 1991,” the magazine’s Africa blog said.

-The BBC shows how to do an honest apology, and the Ethiopian government wants a piece of that…And from Human Rights Watch too.

-Philip Gourevitch thinks humanitarian aid may underwrite gruesome conflicts.

-An Ethiopian writes how Toronto’s politics changed him.