The Mursi tribe in Ethiopia's Omo Valley cuts girls' lower lips to insert clay plates, symbolising beauty and status. They ...

True for the tribes residing in the Omo Valley, body art is the distinctive features of the communities which differentiate them from the other tribes. For those people, using natural materials ...

Occasionally they are deployed in skirmishes between the different tribes of the Omo Valley, Biwa says, or used to kill the huge crocodiles that thrash in the river’s chocolatey brown waters.

TOUR Several travel companies organise tours of the South Omo Valley. I went with the local outfit Omo Valley Tours which offers stays with tribes. Ph +2519 1260 8430.

Over the past few years, traditional tribal life in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, is claimed to have been threatened by modern developments.

Omo Valley indigenous tribes never consulted, victims of official violence There has been almost no consultation of the indigenous peoples of the Lower Omo Valley about these projects on their land, ...

Spanish photographer Diego Arroyo took a trip to Ethiopia's Omo River Valley to find the world's most ancient tribes.

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 ...

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 ...