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Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff

Published: Monday, March 29, 2010

New York (Tadias) – As all eyes are focused on the upcoming May 2010 elections in Ethiopia, and amid talks of blocking VOA’s Amharic program, a new media tool is changing the way people retrieve Ethiopian news online.

Developed by Journalist Abebe Gelaw, a 2009 John S.

Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and a 2010 World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders honoree, The Addis Voice Toolbar delivers up-to-the-minute breaking Ethiopian stories from news sources across the globe.

We followed up with Gelaw to learn more about the Addis Voice Toolbar.

Below is our recent interview with him.

Tadias: Could you please tell us a bit about the Addis Voice Toolbar? How does it work?

Abebe Gelaw: The Ad