History has not been kind to the Batwa, the minority community of the Great Lakes region. Whether in Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo or Burundi, old or young, their misery is deep and shared, like a culture.

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 Rwandan government will not accord the Batwa community affirmative action, despite calls by the United Nations to protect them from "impending extinction." At a meeting in Geneva on April 29, the ...

Today, it is a common belief among some sections of the public that Bakiga are brave people. But to the Batwa (pygmies), fighting the Bakiga was not as hard or dangerous as hunting a buffalo or lion.

A new report has documented a deadly three-year campaign by park guards and soldiers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to expel Indigenous Batwa people from their native land in the sprawling ...

The Rwandan government continues to promote its "Everybody is Rwandan" policy 21 years after the genocide, in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the span of 100 days.But some ...

KISORO, UGANDA — 20 years ago Uganda's Batwa, or pygmies, were evicted from the forest to make way for a national park. But now the impoverished Batwa are being allowed back as tour guides, showing ...

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The Batwa community are believed to be one of the original inhabitants of the Equatorial Forest in the Great Lakes Region. Uganda’s Batwa community are highly vulnerable; they don’t own much land and ...

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History has not been kind to the Batwa, the minority community of the Great Lakes region. Whether in Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo or Burundi, old or young, their misery is deep and shared, like a culture.