The global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, Survival International, says it has received reports that an Ethiopian tribe, the Kwegu, is facing severe hunger. Their plight is blamed on the ...
Children sit on the bank of the Omo River, which supplies water to the Gilgel Gibe III dam. Alamy courtesy of The Guardian The United Nations is assessing a potential link between the massive Gilgel ...
The Kwegu in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley are starving because of the destruction of their forest and the death of the Omo river © Survival International One of the ...
Until recently, indigenous groups in the Omo Valley planted crops, foraged, hunted, fished, herded animals, and shared food. Now they face starvation. Over thousands of seasons across hundreds of ...
The Kwegu people of Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley are facing starvation because of the loss of their land to a huge sugar plantation, the destruction of their forest and the damming of the Omo river - ...