(GIN) – In an apparent reprise of the Bush administation’s foray into the Horn of Africa, the Obama  administration is looking to increase “development assistance” to its ally Ethiopia despite concerns about the country's slide toward authoritarianism.
 
Ethiopia supported a U.S. initiative to unseat the Somali government in 2006. It sent troops to Mogadishu, but pulled them out earlier this year, when the world communty switched sides and backed the Islamic Courts Union it had just overthrown.