Hurso | |
|---|---|
  Hurso Location within Ethiopia | |
| Coordinates: 9°34′N 41°23′E / 9.567°N 41.383°E | |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Region | Somali |
| Zone | Shinile |
| Woreda | Erer |
| Elevation | 1,130 m (3,710 ft) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 3,318 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Hurso (Somali language: Huursoo) is a town in eastern Ethiopia. Located in the Shinile Zone of the Somali Region about 40 km west of Dire Dawa, it has a longitude and latitude of 9°36′N 41°38′E / 9.600°N 41.633°E and an altitude of 1130 meters above sea level. It is one of four towns in Erer woreda.
Hurso was served by a station on the Ethio-Djibouti Railways. South of the town is Camp Hurso, where members of the 294th Infantry Regiment, Guam Army National Guard, U.S. Army, spent a year training soldiers of the Ethiopian National Defense Force in 2006.[1]
Hurso was where the founding meeting of the Ethiopian Somali Democratic League was held, under the sponsorship of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front and the leadership of the two Somali members of the federal cabinet, Federal Minister Abdul Mejid Hussein and Federal Vice-Minister Samsudin Ahmed.[2]
- ^ "U.S. Units Help Ethiopians Build Capacity", American Forces Press Service website, published 22 April 2006 (accessed 16 October 2009)
- ^ Sarah Vaughan, "Ethnicity and Power in Ethiopia" Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine (University of Edinburgh: Ph.D. Thesis, 2003), p. 210 and nn. 214, 215