Hurso
Coordinates: 9 ° 34 ' N , 41 ° 23' E
Hurso ( Ethiopian writing : ሉርሶ) is a place in the woreda Erer in the Shinile zone of the Somali region in Ethiopia . It is located about 26 km west of Dire Dawa on the railway line from Addis Ababa to Djibouti and is the site of a military camp.
population
According to the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia for 2005, Hurso had 3,318 inhabitants. In 1997, 59.88% of the 2,226 inhabitants were Somali , 22.46% Oromo and 11.99% Amhars ; 5.67% were from other races.
The Gurgura - who are of mixed Somali and Oromo descent - dominate the trade along the railway line between Hurso and Bike .
history
From February 12, 1994, the national governing coalition EPRDF organized a three-day meeting in the military camp of Hurso, at which the Ethiopian Somali Democratic League was founded as the new regional party for the Somali region. Prime Minister Tamrat Layne addressed the 1,500 delegates, and the two Somali ministers in the federal government, Abdimajid Hussein and Shamsudiin Ahmed , also attended the meeting and became President and General Secretary of the new party, respectively. Days earlier in Harar , President Meles Zenawi had warned elders and Somali politicians to cooperate with the EPRDF.
In 2006 members of the US 294th Infantry Regiment spent a year at Camp Hurso to train soldiers in the Ethiopian Army .
swell
- ↑ a b CSA : 2005 National Statistics, Section – B Population ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Table B.4 (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- ↑ The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Volume I: Part I. Statistical Report on Population Size and Characteristics ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 1998 (PDF; 51.8 MB), p. 72
- ↑ Ludovic Ollivier: Les Somalis du Harar et la “démocratie ethnique” Ethiopienne (1991-1994) (PDF; 799 kB), in: Politique Africaine 59, 1995, pp. 153-163
- ↑ John Markakis: The Somali in Ethiopia , in: Review of African Political Economy , Vol. 23, No. 70 (December 1996), pp. 567-570
- ↑ Abdi Ismail Samatar: Ethiopian Federalism: Autonomy versus Control in the Somali Region , in: Third World Quarterly , Vol. 25/6, 2004
- ↑ Jim Garamone: US Units Help Ethiopians Build Capacity , in: American Forces Press Service, April 22, 2006
