Discover the Batwa people of Uganda, known to be direct descendants of the first humans. After living peacefully isolated in the dense rainforest for thousands of years they were suddenly and forcibly ...

In the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, park guards and Congolese soldiers, with support from international conservation groups, have undertaken a brutal, three-year ...

DAKAR, Senegal — The Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 years ago from their ancestral lands to expand one of the country’s biggest ...

For decades, Congolese officials have barred the Batwa from their ancestral lands in the name of preserving the critically endangered eastern lowland gorilla. But a new study suggests the Batwa were ...

The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights has found that the violent forced eviction of the Indigenous Batwa community from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo was ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The decline in critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas between 1994 and 2003 in the highland sector of Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic ...

The ruling by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights recognises Batwa as the best guardians of biodiversity in Kahuzi Biega National Park (PNKB) and calls on the Democratic Republic of ...

The Batwa people have over the years lived at the foot of the dense forests along Muhabura, Sabinyo and Gahinga volcanoes in Kisoro district. The Batwa have for years been hunter-gatherers and fierce ...

AfricaBeat on the Batwa from the Democratic Republic of Congo: “The Batwa people were traditionally hunter-gatherers. In Eastern Congo, they lived off what the forest provided, until prolonged warfare ...

KAHUZI-BIEGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo, Aug 2 (Reuters) - In the forested borderlands of eastern Congo, some members of an exiled hunter-gatherer community plan to move back into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 ...