The agency also has plans to launch coverage in Swahili and Hausa – some of the largest languages in Africa, he added.
"That is respect, in fact, for the local culture, recognition of the multicolored world," Kiselev noted ahead of the official opening of the agency's Addis Ababa office, which will focus on Amharic coverage.
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