Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The Lower Omo Valley in south-western Ethiopia is a vast and rugged region of mountains and valleys, inhabited largely by nomadic agro-pastoralist tribes numbering some 200,000 ...
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With every generation, the chance to see some of the world’s last tribal people living authentically dwindles. When I visited the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia almost two decades ago, there were few ...
These striking portraits of members of an isolated tribe in Ethiopia offer a rare glimpse of ancient traditions of body modification. Dale Morris, 46, a professional photographer, managed to gain ...
A massive sugar plantation and up to 700,000 migrant workers will occupy almost 2,000 sq.km of Ethiopia's Omo Valley, with the help of British aid finance. But the valley's native inhabitants have ...
New York-based art director and photographer Diego Arroyo recently returned from a trip to Ethiopia to document the ancient tribes of the Omo Valley. During his time in Ethiopia, Arroyo spent time ...
Fears have been sparked of a mass eviction of 200,000 Omo tribes from the Lower Omo valley in Ethiopia to convert available land into sugarcane plantations. A leaked map, which forms part of an ...
The global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, Survival International, says it has received reports that an Ethiopian tribe, the Kwegu, is facing severe hunger. Their plight is blamed on the ...
A photographer has told how two members of a generally-peaceful tribe who live deep in a remote valley in Ethiopia held him and his daughter at gunpoint in a robbery. Geography teacher-turned ...