Floods in Ethiopia have dealt a devastating blow to some of the country's most endangered tribes after it emerged yesterday that more than 1,000 people may have been killed across the country in the ...

On July 14, I reported that elders of Ethiopia’s Kara tribe formally renounced the practice of Mingi, or child sacrifice. What motivates a tribe to overturn a belief system that has been in place for ...

With fewer than two thousand members, the Karo are one of the smallest tribes living along the Omo. They support themselves with fishing and sorghum farming, and by trading with the Hamar and the ...

A blood-curdling shriek rends the heavy night air of a remote African village. I sit up in alarm on my dried cow hide laid out on the red dust. There's a millisecond of silence … and then an absolute ...

08 March 2016 • 3:23pm These photos by photographer Massimo Rumi of the lost world of the Omo Valley gives a glimpse into one of the most remote and beautiful parts of Africa. But beneath the surface, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link New York-based art director and photographer Diego Arroyo recently returned from a trip to Ethiopia to document the ancient tribes of the Omo ...

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, ...

Fears have been sparked of a mass eviction of 200,000 Omo tribes from the Lower Omo valley in Ethiopia to convert available land into sugarcane plantations. A leaked map, which forms part of an ...

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 ...

Human rights groups fear for the future of the tribes if they are forced to scatter, through loss of land or ability to keep cattle as globalisation and development increases (all photographs by Getty ...