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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The peoples of the Lower Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia have never had an easy task in ensuring their own survival. Hot and dry, with temperamental rainfall, the region demands ingenuity and flexibility from its inhabitants. At least 200,000 people from the Bacha, Bodi, Dasanech, Hamar, Kara, Kwegu, Murle, Mursi […]
Analysis in English on Ethiopia about Food and Nutrition, Health and Epidemic; published on 8 Feb 2023 by Oakland Institute
MSF teams are providing medical assistance to the Mursi tribe, an indigenous group in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, where an alarming number of kala azar cases have been identified.
MSF teams are providing medical assistance to the Mursi tribe, an indigenous group in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, where an alarming number of kala azar cases have been identified.
A flagship dam and large-scale sugarcane plantations in southwestern Ethiopia are causing starvation and disease among several Indigenous groups driven off their land by the projects, according to a report by the Oakland Institute, a California-based think tank. Construction of the Gilgel Gibe III dam on the Omo River began in 2006. The intention was […]