Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

The Dassanech tribe, with a population of 48,000, lives along the banks of the Omo River © Marco Cheli

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Pressures on pastoralism and agriculture have forced many Dassanech to become fishermen. Most of the fish is concentrated at the mouth of the Omo River, where it flows into Lake Turkana: here the Dassanech clash with the Turkana tribe of Kenya over this resource, which is also facing over-exploitation © Marco Cheli

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

In a Dassanech village along the Omo © Marco Cheli

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

In a Dassanech village along the Omo © Marco Cheli

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

In a Dassanech village along the Omo © Marco Cheli

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

In a Dassanech village along the Omo © Marco Cheli

Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia

Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia

Lorogue is one of the elders of a Dassanech village along the Omo © Marco Cheli

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley, Dassanech tribe

Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia

1 april 2020,

by Editorial staff