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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From the battlefield to the soccer field. That's the journey of 27-year-old Fitsum Habtom of Seattle. He remembers playing "street football" in a refugee camp in Sudan, where his family fled during a ...

OAKLAND — Armed rebels in the famine-ravaged Horn of Africa are being partially bankrolled by money from immigrants in the Bay Area, according to a United Nations report. The East African nation of ...