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 ...
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Authentic Photos Of The Batwa People, Who Lived Peacefully Until They Were Evicted From Their Forest In 1991
The Echuya Batwa—often known as “keepers of the forest”—are an endangered tribe of forest-dwelling hunter-gatherer people. They lived peacefully off their land without any outside influence until 1991 ...
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 ...
Africa’s top human rights commission said the Democratic Republic of Congo violated the rights of Indigenous Batwa people when it forcibly evicted them from their ancestral territories and imposed a ...
August 2, 2023: In eastern Congo (South Kivu province) there are an estimated 10,000 local Batwa tribesmen and their families living in makeshift encampments on the edge of the KBNP (Kahuzi-Biega ...
Last July, teams of armed park guards and Congolese soldiers who were supposed to be protecting a national wildlife preserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo from poaching and illegal mining ...
KAHUZI-BIEGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - In the forested borderlands of eastern Congo, some members of an exiled hunter-gatherer community plan to move back into their ...
The number of attacks by security forces on Indigenous Batwa villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kahuzi-Biega National Park has tripled in the past four weeks, according to the Forest ...
Congo and the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 have agreed to establish an oversight mechanism for a potential permanent ...
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