From the central highlands the river flows wide ... in which boys run along the backs of cattle to prove they are ready for manhood. Today the Omo Valley is a destination for wealthy tourists ...

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.

A prehistoric site near Lake Turkana, the lower valley of the Omo is renowned the world over. The discovery of many fossils there, especially Homo gracilis, has been of fundamental importance in the ...