Giant dam to devastate 200,000 tribal people in Ethiopia 23 March 2010A massive hydroelectric dam project on Ethiopia’s Omo River will devastate at least 200,000 tribal people, human rights organization Survival International said today.
Demonstrations in Kenya against Ethiopian dam 2 February 2010Demonstrators have protested in Kenya against a controversial dam that threatens the survival of a hundred thousand indigenous people.
Mursi eviction fears grow 19 June 2006The Mursi, a nomadic, cattle-herding people living in the Omo National Park in southwest Ethiopia, fear eviction from their ancestral lands in the name of conservation. If evicted, they will lose precious agricultural and grazing lands which are central
Mursi land threatened by government 8 August 2005The Mursi are facing the threat of being denied access to land they depend on for cultivation and cattle herding in the Omo and Mago National Parks of Southern Ethiopia.
