Slideshow: Progress in an Ancient Tongue
Research advances could bring Ethiopic characters -- hundreds of them -- to text messaging, and maybe help modernize the country. Andrew Heavens reports from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
A boy stands outside a mobile-phone shop in Addis Ababa, where Ethiopia's infrastructure minister, Kasu Yilala, recently called the country one of the least connected in the world. The state monopoly mobile-phone service provider, Ethiopian Telecommunications, is working to address the physical infrastructure shortfall.
