This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Dunga Nakuwa cups his face in his hands and remembers his mother's voice. She has been dead nearly two years, but for ...

I think we owe that to the people of the Omo. Mark Angelo is the chair of the Rivers Institute at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and an internationally acclaimed river conservationist.

Twenty people are missing. Interior Minister Kipchumba ... Fishermen from Ethiopia clashed with Kenyan counterparts at the Omo river on Saturday, Turkana County governor Jeremiah Lomorukai said ...

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.

Kenyan police and government officials have disclosed that at least 22 people are missing after a ... evening at Lopeimukat ...

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 ...

Kenya has heightened security along its border with Ethiopia after a violent clash left 22 people missing. The conflict, near the Omo river, involved armed men and led to the disappearance of 15 ...

The fighting happened on Saturday evening at Lopeimukat and Natira near the Omo River along the Kenya-Ethiopia ... On the Ethiopian side, a total of 13 people died and another three were wounded ...