ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – On Tuesday this week, construction workers have accidentally discovered mass graves inside the notorious Central Investigation’s (Maekelawi) detention center that is located behind the Addis Ababa Police Commission.

The Addis Ababa Police Commission’s headquarters is being torn down and rebuilt.

Editor’s Note: With the whole world cheering Obama and pinning their hopes on him, the writer of the following article is one dissident voice who refuses to follow the herd. She likes to share the following piece inspired by Obama’s inauguration with Awdalnews readers. More on Hope springs eternal. Has it ever borne fruit?

 Ethiopians Woyanne came bristling with the hardware of modern warfare.  They came looking like Rambo with black stripes painted on black faces.  They came brimming with pride, arrogance and the foolishness of man. They let lose their goons on the populace and harvested death and destruction. More on Woyanne Defeated

With a call for ‘relentless’ diplomacy, Hillary further obliterates W’s legacy

After Inauguration Day, departed presidents usually become footnotes pretty quickly. What we are witnessing now is far more dramatic. It’s closer to a liquidation, or a cauterization. George W. Bush is being turned into an unperson, like a character out of Orwell. It’s been only two days, and there is scarcely a trace of not only his personal presence, but of his policies. Or at least that is the impression Barack Obama would like to convey. More on Erasing Bush

Embracing Barack Obama as a fellow African, many residents of Somalia’s war-weary capital Mogadishu say they expect the new U.S. president to act more positively toward Somalia than his predecessor, George W. Bush.  More on Somalis Cheer the Change in US Leadership

We write to express our concern about several recent developments in your country, which we fear could make the important partnership between the United States and Ethiopia more difficult. We are deeply troubled that these events together appear to indicate an erosion of political freedom and the rule of law in Ethiopia.

Tens of thousands of Somalis have gathered at the football stadium in Mogadishu to celebrate the withdrawal of Ethiopian  Woyann troops from the city. The stadium was a former Ethiopian Woyanne base and Islamist and clan elders called for Somalis to solve their own problems and not resort to more violence. More on Thousands cheer in Mogadishu to celebrate the defeat of Woyanne Mercenaries

The Washington DC Metropolitan Area chapter of Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) has been officially launched on January 11, 2009. While getting itself organized, the chapter has already made substantial contributions to the Front to be used for humanitarian needs, such as purchasing medicines and supporting the families of the freedom fighters. More on EPPF Washington DC chapter launched

MOGADIHSU (Sh M. Network)-The Ethiopian Woyanne troops pulled out completely from the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials told radio Shabelle on Thursday.

emptied all their bases and moved overnight onto the southern road to Baidoa,” Abdifitah Ibrahim Shaaweye, deputy governor of Banadir Region, told radio Shabelle More on Woyanne troops withdraw completely from Mogadishu

The withdrawal of Ethiopian Woyanne troops from Somalia is a gamble not unlike America’s planned drawdown from Iraq.

The Ethiopians , Woyanne with U.S. assistance, invaded to topple an Islamist movement that controlled Mogadishu, and had been sheltering a handful of al-Qaeda operatives. More on Woyanne won’t admit defeat in Somalia