I headed first to the remote Omo River tribe areas to visit the Surma people to see girls in indigenous communities.
The tug-of-war over the development, which has been going on for two decades, has brought together business executives and builders, conservationists, the National Park Service, Indian tribes, area residents and others.
In corporate acts of expelling pollution, an entire community may purge itself of a polluted individual in its midst by excommunicating him and forcing him to leave the religious group, caste, tribe, or area.
The lands are traditional tribal grazing areas, such that migration in search of pasture and water by one tribe into areas that belong to other tribes often causes conflict between pastoralists.
Save for local indigenous tribes, the area is ruled entirely by the "locals"; harpy eagles and Amazon parrots control the skies, jaguars prowl the forest floor and ferocious peacock bass run the lakes.
"We've seen refugees from tribes and areas that we didn't see previously, which means the fighting has spread to the villages," said Kazungu.
Tribes flee areas after unexpected attacks, and characters turn up later in the game in new locations depending on your side-quest decisions.
Of the many tribes in the area, the three largest tribes in and around Balaka are traditionally matrilineal: Yao, Ngoni, and Lomwe.
Probably from a mobile tribe in the area about 50 years ago.
The commander, Abu Omar, was Syrian, a member of a tribe in the area, but he described his movement's goals as reaching far beyond the country's borders.
