The US$1.8 billion 1,870-MW Gibe III hydroelectric dam in the lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia has been completed, threatening the indigenous tribal communities and increasing conflict in the area. These ...

The road to the Mursi heartland is long and best tackled one obstacle at a time. Just to call it a road is a stretch, really. Steve Turner, our guide from Kenya-based Origins Safaris, estimates it has ...

African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Printed caption on verso reads: "Mursi woman with lip plate ...

(Nairobi) – The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo valley without adequate consultation or compensation to make way for state-run sugar ...

Ethnic Mursi women with a Lip plate (lip cup) carrying a pot and holding her baby with one hand at Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Women of the Mursi tribe may have their lips cut at the age of 15 or 16. A ...

A young Mursi woman sends out a sharp glance while the Sun nears the horizon at the of the day in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Blurred out of focus, the shoulder hints some irregular bumps, in fact skin ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Food insecurity, famine and malnutrition have blighted the agropastoralist communities of the Lower Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia. A ...

English photographer Matilda Temperley has visited the remote Omo valley in Ethiopia, documenting the colourful traditions of the Surma people who live in the Rift Valley The tribes pictured in this ...

Somali model Fatima Siad calls New York City home these days, but this winter, eager to reconnect with her East African roots, she took a trip to Ethiopia’s Omo River Valley—one of the last remaining ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Printed caption on verso reads: "Mursi woman wearing lipplate of big size (Omo Valley - Ethiopia)." Item number on verso reads: "RT-318." ...