Metu

Metu is a marketplace town and separate woreda in south-western Ethiopia. Located inside the Illubabor Zone of the Oromia Region along the Sor River, this town has a latitude and longitude of 8°18′N 35°35′E and an altitude of 1605 meters.

Metu changed into the capital of the former Illubabor Province from 1978 until the adoption of the new constitution in 1995. Metu has been an vital marketplace of the coffee exchange, with several foreigners dwelling inside the city as early because the Thirties to buy the crops from neighborhood farmers. On 9 July 1927, the Greek nationals T. Zewos and A. Donalis had been offered a settlement to hyperlink the metropolis and Gore with the aid of road with Gambela, a distance of 180 kilometers. In the 1930s, Metu was the final prevent before achieving Gore. At the time it turned into a middle for mule caravans and later additionally as a terminal for the Ethiopian Transport Motor Company. The non-public weekly Urji reported 11 July 1995 that some 400 prisoners reportedly escaped whilst a grenade changed into activate at the Bisheri jail in Metu.