When I visited the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia almost two decades ago, there were few dirt roads, and tribes lived in mud huts and were mostly naked except for spectacular body paint.

To travel to Ethiopia’s remote Omo River Valley is to wade into a morass of moral ambiguities. You will be on a safari where people—not wildlife—are the attraction. You will observe ...

The tribes of Ethiopia's Omo Valley by Massimo Rumi, in pictures. Over the past few years, traditional tribal life in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, is claimed to have been threatened by modern ...

They, along with several others tribes, make up the 200,000 people situated in Africa’s Great Rift Valley. The people of the Omo Valley are still primarily herders and farmers, living an ...

They are one of eight main tribes living in the Lower Omo Valley. Until recently, when Biwa teamed up with Wild Philanthropy, a two-year-old UK charity that seeks to use tourism to promote ...

Numbering about 6,500, the Mursi people are nomadic cow herders and are culturally and linguistically similar to the Surma. They’re also among the most widely photographed of the Omo River tribes.

I had come to the Omo Valley with innovative tourism entrepreneur Will Jones to get a view into the lives of some of Africa’s most traditional tribes. “I’m particularly interested in the Omo ...

Over the past few years, traditional tribal life in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, is claimed to have been threatened by modern developments. UK News Website of the Year 2024 Search Icon ...