The Mursi people have a distinct and very peculiar tradition of having lip plates in their mouths. When a young lady reaches puberty, her lips are cut, and a wooden plate inserted. This wooden plate ...

When the rainy season finishes, a few tourists head into the south of Ethiopia, close to the borders with Kenya and South Sudan. They’re searching for one of the last African tribes that pierce and ...

An Indian vlogger teaching the members of an Ethiopian tribe how to sing in Hindi has surfaced online. In the video, the content creator sings the popular song Pardesi Jana Nahin, as the tribe members ...

What is beauty and how do you define it? A question which may sound so simple but which is, on the contrary, so complicated and multi-faceted to many. To better grasp this concept, I visited the Mursi ...

(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 ...

Cairo: Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi, facing growing discontent at home, has warned “all options are open” for his country in dealing with a threat posed to its water sufficiency by a ...