''Courrier d'Ethiopie'' ('Courier of Ethiopia') was a

French language French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...

weekly newspaper published from Addis Ababa 1913–1936.
Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier
'. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 568 The first issue came out on August 2, 1913. ''Courrier d'Ethiopie'' was the first foreign-language newspaper in Ethiopia. The newspaper was founded by Alexis Desvages, who also served as its editor until 1924. Soon after its foundation the newspaper reached a circulation of around 700. Initially all material in the newspaper was in French (i.e. Roman font), but soon advertisements in

Amharic Amharic ( or ; (Amharic: ), ', ) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for all oth ...

and, later, notices in Amharic began to appear in ''Courrier d'Ethiopie''.Pankhurst, Estelle Sylvia.
Ethiopia: a cultural history
'. Lalibela House, 1955. p. 525 Publication was discontinued 1914–1917, when Desvages was doing military service.Uhlig, Siegbert.
Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha
'. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005. p. 145

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