When a young lady reaches puberty, her lips are cut, and a wooden plate inserted. This wooden plate represents an initiation into womanhood. It symbolizes womanhood, fertility and it implies that she ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Printed caption on verso reads: "Mursi woman wearing lipplate of big size (Omo Valley - Ethiopia)." Item number on verso reads: "RT-318." ...

When the rainy season finishes, a few tourists head into the south of Ethiopia, close to the borders with Kenya and South Sudan. They’re searching for one of the last African tribes that pierce and ...

In Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, the Mursi are known for scarification, cattle culture, lip plates, and warrior traditions. This ...

Cairo: Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi, facing growing discontent at home, has warned “all options are open” for his country in dealing with a threat posed to its water sufficiency by a ...

What is beauty and how do you define it? A question which may sound so simple but which is, on the contrary, so complicated and multi-faceted to many. To better grasp this concept, I visited the Mursi ...

CAIRO, June 10 (Reuters) - President Mohamed Mursi said on Monday he would keep "all options" open to defend Egypt's water supply from being affected by a giant new dam Ethiopia is building on the ...

A large Egyptian opposition movement accused President Mohamed Mursi of having no plan for dealing with Ethiopia’s plan to build a dam that could siphon off vital Nile River water. Ethopia’s decision ...