Turkey state owned public lender Ziraat Bank is going to establish an office in Ethiopia reports the country’s Daily Sabah.
Turkey’s Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci told reporters on Monday that the bank has “applied to open an office in Ethiopia” adding that Ziraat wishes to obtain a banking license in Ethiopia.
Thousands of city dwellers descended on the streets of Addis Abeba this morning to participate in a government organized rally against the killings by militants of the Islamic State (IS) of Ethiopians and possibly Eritreans and the killings of three Ethiopians by xenophobic attacks in South Africa. But the rally was marred by chaos following chants by protestors that led to a police crackdown.
The police have today forcibly dispersed thousands of protestors who came out to the streets to protest the killings by ISIS militants of 28 Christian Ethiopians in Libya. A video released by the Islamic State group on Sunday April 19th appears to show the killing of two different groups of captured Ethiopian Christians by the extremist group’s Libyan affiliates.
