Local leaders at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area are working to become financially self-sufficient and ...

Art ventures into the Omo Valley, Ethiopia’s nearly inaccessible and richest tribal zone. Ethiopia is like no other place in Africa. In this episode, Art ventures into the Omo Valley, Ethiopia ...

New satellite imagery shows extensive clearance of land used by indigenous groups to make way for state-run sugar plantations in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley.. According to Human Rights Watch and ...

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 ...

A trek through Ethiopia's Omo Valley, where one of the world's final undeveloped places is about to disappear.

The Omo valley is in Ethiopia’s Southern Peoples, Nations, and Nationalities Region (SNNPR), near the border with Kenya, and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1980.

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.

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

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