North of Ethiopia, along the Red Sea lies Eritrea. Since gaining its independence in 1993, the country of 3.8 million has been ruled by a single dictator in a regime marked by widespread repression.

ASMARA, May 10 (AFP) — Nearly a decade after accidentally discovering a previously unknown language on an Indian Ocean archipelago off the Eritrean coast, a French linguist is fighting to save the ...

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