The itinerary evolves as we go along. Our tag-team pair of Land Cruisers galumphs down the scrubby track at a hiker's pace, and every hundred yards or so the vehicles stop short, the doors swing open, ...

Remoteness and the lack of education and access to most modern technology mean that tribal people rarely have the skills and infrastructure to control the timing or basic terms of tourist visits. Omo ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2008, Labuko, by then working as safari translator, started organizing other young Karo men who believed their brothers and sisters had died unnecessarily. Together they began confronting the ...

By Yordanos D. Few countries can claim to tell the story of humanity itself. Ethiopia can. From the fossilized remains of ...

The Lower Omo Valley in southwest Ethiopia is home to more than 200,000 people, living in villages along the shores of the mighty Omo River, which meanders for 500 miles through the central highlands ...

Among the finds of the Kenya group (led by Mr Richard Leakey) of the 1967 International Palaeontological Research Expedition to the Omo River were three skulls and some skeletal material belonging to ...