The conflict, which ended in tragedy, took place in Lopeimukat, near the Omo River's mouth. Lake Turkana lies on the Kenyan-Ethiopian border, with the majority of the lake belonging to Kenya.

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 ...

especially with the damming of River Omo by Ethiopia in a development initiative with the potential of limiting Lake Turkana’s main water supply among other “unintended” outcomes.

In Dunga's village each month around the new moon, near where the Omo River empties into Lake Turkana, the man who speaks to crocodiles descends in darkness to perform a short ceremony that ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a hot spring morning, Galte Nyemeto stood by the shore of Lake Turkana scanning for crocodiles. The water was ...

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Africa's beautiful lakes not only serve as key sources of water, food and transportation, but also act as borders—both ...

The fighting happened on Saturday evening at Lopeimukat and Natira near the Omo River along the Kenya-Ethiopia border, Kenya's Turkana county governor Jeremiah Lomorukai said in a statement.

"The bodies are littered along the Lake. Some other ... attack after suspected Turkana bandits from Kenya shot dead three Dassanech fishermen from Ethiopia near the Omo River on Saturday morning.