Alawara Kolbala, 39, from the Mursi tribe, said he remembers the sense of pride and hope his community felt when they ...

Experts have warned that three lakes in the Rift Valley region are at risk of being placed on the 'danger list' by the United ...

Four suspected Ethiopian Dassanech militiamen implicated in the killing of four Kenyan fishermen last week near the volatile ...

For many generations people in the Omo Valley (tribal southwest Ethiopia) believed some children are cursed and that these 'cursed' children bring disease, drought and death to the tribe.

Among the finds of the Kenya group (led by Mr Richard Leakey) of the 1967 International Palaeontological Research Expedition to the Omo River were three skulls and some skeletal material belonging ...

Ethiopia's Omo Valley is a treasure trove of ancient cultures ... traditional attire—a true feast for the senses. The Omo River winds through the valley, offering breathtaking landscapes ...

The river's yearly gift of fertile soils ended ... a town in southwestern Ethiopia, into the Omo Valley as part of a long-standing policy to resettle landless populations. Many of these newcomers ...

The Omo River Valley is home to one of Ethiopia’s largest agricultural projects, with a focus on coffee cultivation, and this has recently expanded to include the cultivation and processing of ...

Food insecurity, famine and malnutrition have blighted the agropastoralist communities of the Lower Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia. A government source blames a long-term drought for ...

In the tradition known as Ukuli Bula in Omo River Valley, Ethiopia, women are flogged as part of a rite of passage ceremony for boys. The men are then allowed to marry since the ceremony makes him ...

The number of fish in the river is minimized, there is no animal to hunt ... after the Gibe III Dam and sugarcane plantations were developed in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, starvation and disease is ...