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  • Teenagers smile and wave as the foreigners pass in there car.
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  • During the 2008 election Obama fans could be found as far away as Ethiopia.
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  • South out of Konso the dirt road shows signs of the new highway but where are the workers?
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  • Even though the Omo Valley is less than a days drive from Awassa, many Ethiopians from the north have never seen the people of the south.  A camera on a mobile phone is still a camera and 1 Birr (Ethiopian currency) is demanded.
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  • A Ethiopian child collect wood and carries on his had back to his home.
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  • The region around  the Omo River Valley is home to more than 50 tribal groups.
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  • The tribes hover in a no mans land somewhere in between settling down and continueing to be nomatic. Tempory homes are made from a mix of sticks, mud and the plastic bags.
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  • During the 2008 election Obama fans could be found as far away as Ethiopia.
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  • A young boy walks his sheep through the busy streets of Addis Ababa.
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  • Driving through the busy streets of Addis Ababa in the common blue cab.  The driver displays two photographs of Bob Marley and plays African Reggae on a small radio in the front seat.
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  • A homeless man sits against tempory wall covered with posters for job offers and musical concerts.  Behind this wall land is being cleared for new apartment buildings.
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  • The costumes and body paint may not be for the tourist but this female elder knows that money comes from the people with the cameras.
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  • Left behind are the ruins of the abandoned attempts... and the local tribes.
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  • People crowd into  an open market beside the last stetch of paved road south of Arba Minch.
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  • The costumes and body paint may not be for the tourist but this female elder knows that money comes from the people with the cameras.
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  • Dikes and levees have been built to help manage and control the seasonal rainfall and reduce the possibility of famine.
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  • The farther south you go the bumpier the road becomes and the less you see managed agriculture and aid.  Local kids run along the side of tourist vehicles hoping to receive gifts or just have some contact with the strangers.
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  • A beautiful blue sky seen from a tour boat in Lake Awasa, Ethiopia.
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  • The main road out of Addis is full of transport trucks headed south and the occasional cow in the middle of the road.
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  • A young worker riding on the back of a truck gives a thumbs up.  This truck could be carrying food aid to the south, equipement for the new roads or on it's way to Kenya.
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  • In the Omo Valley the tribes live from month to month.  Money and infrustructure are needed to build up supplies and stave off famine. Efforts have been made by previous governments to introduce farming and settle the nomadic tribes.
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  • A bright moon shines over a cabin in a camp ground in the Omo River Valley, Ethiopia.
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  • Mid day in Awassa slows down as people try to escape the heat.
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  • If the rains come on time there is no famine.  If they come late there is a green famine where there are crops in the fields but not ripe enough to eat. If they don't come at all there is nothing but dry fields.
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  • Two Ethiopian children fight for a chance to have their picture taken.
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  • Cows roam free in the lush green area just north of Konso
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  • A young Ethiopian girl hides from the camera behind a fence.
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  • As big trucks roll south, the question is will this new road project be completed and will it bring the needed infrastructure and money that the Omo Valley desperately needs?
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