Pygmy activists from Congo demanded that the United Nations set up a tribunal to try government and rebel fighters accused of slaughtering and eating Pygmies during fighting in the northeastern corner ...

(Zenger News) – A Congolese Pygmy hunter–gatherer tribe has seen its members succumb to alcoholism as logging companies and conservation groups abuse and coerce them into relinquishing their ...

LAKE TUMBA, Congo — Pygmy chief Mbomba Bokenu says he may soon let loggers cut his people’s forest, and all he expects in return is soap and a few bags of salt. “The Pygmies are suffering; we accept ...

MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sixteen-year-old Elisée Nyanokonzo used to be afraid to walk alone around the streets of Mbandaka, the crumbling provincial of ...

MUGUNGA, Congo – When he dreams, the Pygmy chief Byeragi Ngenderezi dreams of having basic things: a good plastic tarp, some decent fishing nets, perhaps a few garden hoes. When he dreams big, he ...

IDJWI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - On Idjwi, the largest island in Democratic Republic of Congo, a way of life is dying. Congo's Pygmies are among central Africa's oldest indigenous ...

When Congo Republic's northern pygmies go out into the forest these days, some will be carrying hand-held satellite tracking devices along with their traditional bows and spears. Using GPS handsets to ...

This circa 1915 photo from the American Museum journal shows a group of Pygmy men from Nala (Haut-Uele, northeastern Congo) posing with bows and arrows. (American Museum of Natural History via ...

A Congolese woman wants the world to wake up to the atrocities that are destroying her country. Njuma Ekundanayo doesn't try to explain the politics of what is certainly the most horrific and least ...

In a small corner of the civil war-ravaged Central African Republic lives a tribe of strikingly small people struggling to keep their ancient culture intact. The Ba’Aka, rarely seen by Westerners, ...

MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sixteen-year-old Elisée Nyanokonzo used to be afraid to walk alone around the streets of Mbandaka, the crumbling provincial ...