{"id":519235,"date":"2010-11-05T22:05:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addisnegeronline.com\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2010-11-05T22:05:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T02:05:10","slug":"daily-wrap-the-economist-compares-eprdf-to-the-dergue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/519235","title":{"rendered":"Daily Wrap: The Economist Compares EPRDF to the Dergue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-The Economist finally dares to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/baobab\/2010\/11\/two_new_reports_sudan_and_ethiopia\">mention<\/a> the &#8220;D&#8221; word. &#8220;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 \u201cDerg\u201d regime, overthrown by the EPRDF in 1991,&#8221; the magazine&#8217;s Africa blog said.<\/p>\n<p>-The BBC shows how to do an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/nov\/05\/sorry-hardest-word-apologies\">honest apology<\/a>, and the Ethiopian government wants a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethiopiafirst.info\/news\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;%23038;id=377:press-release-issued-by-the-federal-government-communication-affairs-office-of-ethiopia-&#038;%23038;catid=1:latest-news&#038;%23038;Itemid=1\">piece of that<\/a>&#8230;And from Human Rights Watch too.<\/p>\n<p>-Philip Gourevitch thinks humanitarian aid may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2010\/10\/11\/101011crat_atlarge_gourevitch?currentPage=all\">underwrite<\/a> gruesome conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>-An Ethiopian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/comment\/columnists\/2010\/11\/03\/15950716.html\">writes<\/a> how Toronto&#8217;s politics changed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-The Economist finally dares to mention the &#8220;D&#8221; word. &#8220;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 \u201cDerg\u201d regime, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/519235\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily Wrap: The Economist Compares EPRDF to the Dergue<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[100,18,223,1238,1239],"class_list":["post-519235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amharic","tag-addis-ababa","tag-ethiopia","tag-health","tag-importexport","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}