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CULTURE: CONGOLESE WELCOME SWAHILI AS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
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Juakali Kambale
Inter Press Service English News Wire
08-10-2004
KINSHASA, Aug. 9, 2004 (IPS/GIN) -- News that Swahili has been
adopted as one of the African Union's working languages has been
well received in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where
nearly half the population speaks it, writes it, or understands it.
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which has been replaced
by the 53-nation African Union (AU), had approved Swahili as a
working language several years ago. The pan-African body adopted
Swahili as its working language during its annual heads of state
summit in the ...
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