The Nyangatom People

The Nyangatom live in the dry, semi-desert lands of south-west Ethiopia and southern Sudan, where their lives revolve around their herds of zebu cattle and raising crops including sorghum, maize and tobacco. Today the Nyangatom face new issues. Their lands lie within the Omo national park, created by the Ethiopian government and the Nyangatom fear that their rights to grazing and water will be restricted as they have often been in the past.
In the valley itself, the Nyangatom have established two different kinds of settlements. Members of the tribe who for whatever reason have lost their cattle live along the western bank of the Omo River where they grow sorghum (a tropical cereal grass) and catch fish