ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The peoples of the Lower Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia have never had an easy task in ensuring their own survival. Hot and dry, with temperamental rainfall ...

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 ...

In Dunga's village each month around the new moon, near where the Omo River empties into Lake Turkana, the man who speaks to crocodiles descends in darkness to perform a short ceremony that ...

But inevitably the modern world has edged in. The Ethiopian government is creating a cascade of five dams on the upper Omo, a mighty river that winds for 500 miles through the central highlands ...

the omo river flows 1,000 miles through this vast, open, empty quarter of ethiopia, and ultimately empties into lake turkana, which is this enormous lake in northern kenya.

Wanting to reconnect with her East African roots, model Fatima Siad travels to Ethiopia’s Omo River Valley and immerses herself in the culture, history, and traditional style of the region.

A boy walks to the Omo River at sunrise to gather water in the village of Korcho. The river is crucial to the survival of the tribes that live along it. The fight to end mingi killings in Ethiopia — ...

KANGATEN, Ethiopia—In Nyangatom, on the plains of the Omo River in southern Ethiopia, they call 2015 the “Year of China.” Around then, a bridge was built from there to Kangaten, the district ...

John Rowe, producer and director of the documentary “Omo Child: The River and the Bush,” which recounts the efforts of an Ethiopian man to end the tribal practice of "mingi," the killing of ...

Jones also operates the only permanent tented camp in the Omo Valley, not far from Biwa’s village. This south-western corner of Ethiopia is home to seven primary tribes who coexist with varying ...