“The Omo River is the umbilical cord for Lake Turkana. That’s the best way to ... By 2007 the Aral was nearly dead, its once rich basin a wasteland of dust, its surface scattered with rusted ...

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.

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.

“Potential irreversible loss of the property’s outstanding universal values is caused by impacts of various development projects on the Omo River ... in the Turkana basin, and submit ...

South Omo Zone, along the Ethiopia-Kenya border, in what residents and local officials described as an attack by "armed militants from Kenya's Turkana County" on Saturday, March 22, 2025.