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

In this video, I travel deep into the Omo Valley to visit one of Africa’s most visually distinct tribes—the Lip Plate Tribe. Known for their striking cultural traditions, their food is just as ...

Now, those jobs are gone, and workers have been laid off. Members of the Mursi tribe in Lower Omo River Valley. Image by Rod Waddington via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

The tribe is proud to reclaim its original name known since creation, while honoring history and paying tribute to those who came before.

The Omo Valley is a patchwork of many different tribes. Two of them, the Nyangatom and the Toposa, arrived in the Valley from northern Uganda about 150 years ago.

This is the most southerly of the tribes who live in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley. In this harsh world, there are times when members of the Dassanech tribe lose their cattle and goats, and with them ...

For many generations people in the Omo Valley (tribal southwest Ethiopia) believed some children are cursed and that these 'cursed' children bring disease, drought and death to the tribe. The ...

Dams and overtourism threaten the Omo Valley, but a sustainable travel initiative offers an intimate experience with local peoples ...