What is "hurso"

Hurso ( Ge'ez script: ሉርሶ) is a town in eastern Ethiopia. Located in the Shinile Zone of the Somali Region, it has a longitude and latitude of and an altitude of 1130 meters above sea level. It is one of four towns in Erer woreda.

Hurso is served by a station on the Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway. 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.

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, as well as under strong pressure publicly applied by Ethiopian Prime Minister and President Meles Zenawi.