The new protest is also situated in one of the hitherto restive regions, Oromia. Small business people according to the privately-owned Addis Standard (AS) news portal were protesting over a recently introduced business tax. The World Bank in a recent report report stated that Ethiopia’s economy will be the most expansive on the continent for the year 2017 followed by Tanzania, Ivory Coast and Senegal in that order. The position was contained in the global finance outfit’s Global Economic Prospect report released in June. Through public-private partnerships, the private sector is interested to develop roads,” Minister of Finance and Economic Development Abraham Tekeste told Reuters in an interview.

Source: Ethiopian News July 19, 2017 09:23 UTC