Technology giant Google has integrated 24 new languages into its translation option.
Among these include 10 African languages, notably the Bamanankan spoken in Mali, the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and the Krio in Sierra Leone.
This news has been welcomed in Bamako where Bamanakan. The langage is also spoken in Cote d’Ivoire, in Burkina Faso and in Guinea.
Tofik Abdul Nasir reports