This month, a California woman returned from a trip to Uganda, where her group visited a small village. “In a country where many adults earn less than $1 a day, the Batwa (people) are considered much ...

Part of the beauty of pursuing projects in sub-Saharan Africa is that the need is great, your money goes a long way, and the building permit process is tremendously less burdensome than here in Nevada ...

A new report alleges the U.N. has been complicit in the violent eviction of Indigenous people from six World Heritage Sites in Africa and Asia. These sites “are very often the stolen ancestral lands ...

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 ...

In early March, a California returned returned from a trip to Uganda to visit the mountain gorillas there. Her tour was quite expensive. She traveled with many of the same people on this tour, most of ...

Evicted from their ancestral forest homes three decades ago in a move to conserve wildlife, many of Uganda's Batwa people struggle for a more dignified way of life. On a hike into the Bwindi ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Batwa, an ethnic group which represents about 2% of population in Burundi, is a community still strongly discriminated against in a country that was torn apart by a ...

Documenting Ugandan history is one of the hardest asks; because Uganda has been through numerous wars, a lot about Uganda’s past has either been stolen or destroyed. Uganda, for instance, has one ...