Courrier d'Ethiopie ('Courier of Ethiopia') was a French language weekly newspaper published from Addis Ababa 1913–1936.Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 568 The first issue came out on August 2, 1913.Negro Year Book: An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro. 1918. p. 144 Courrier d'Ethiopie was the first foreign-language newspaper in Ethiopia.Pankhurst, Richard. Economic and Social Innovation during the Last Years of Emperor Mənilək's Life and the Short Reign of Ləj Iyasu The newspaper was founded by Alexis Desvages, who also served as its editor until 1924. Soon after its foundation the newspaper reached a circulation of around 700. Initially all material in the newspaper was in French (i.e. Roman font), but soon advertisements in Amharic and, later, notices in Amharic began to appear in Courrier d'Ethiopie.Pankhurst, Estelle Sylvia. Ethiopia: a cultural history. Lalibela House, 1955. p. 525
Publication was discontinued 1914–1917, when Desvages was doing military service.Uhlig, Siegbert. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005. p. 145
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