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By Aimable TwahirwaLatoya Abulu A new study has concluded that the decline in Grauer’s gorillas in a sector of their main stronghold in the Democratic Republic of Congo was the result of the ...
Meghan Markle's Netflix animated show "Pearl" that was canceled has been accused of having "striking similarities" to children's author Mel Elliott's books.
Former Atascocita resident Wendee Nicole carries Joyce, an 11-year-old Batwa girl Wendee Nicole has adopted from Uganda. Wendee Nicole sold her house and moved to Uganda to help the children there ...
In the forested borderlands of eastern Congo, some members of an exiled hunter-gatherer community plan to move back into their ancestral land in a national park in protest over broken promises ...
The Batwa people are one of the oldest surviving Indigenous tribes in Africa. They live high in the mountain forests, straddling several East African countries. The Batwa are now also called ...
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on Tuesday released a landmark decision declaring that the displacement of the indigenous Batwa people from their ancestral lands within the ...
Nevada County has a strong connection with one of the oldest people groups in Africa who dwell in southwestern Uganda on the edge of the Rift Valley—they are the Batwa.
The Uganda-based firm Studio FH Architects teamed up with the one of the oldest indigenous tribes in Africa, the Batwa, to rebuild a permanent village after being displaced ...
A new study has concluded that the decline in Grauer’s gorillas in a sector of their main stronghold in the Democratic Republic of Congo was the result of the impacts of armed conflict, rather ...
A series of raids by soldiers and rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kahuzi-Biega National Park have left one Indigenous man dead and a pregnant woman missing, feared burned alive in ...
In a historic decision, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights ruled that the DRC government’s forcible eviction of the indigenous Batwa community from their ancestral lands within the ...
Despite being highly affected by a changing climate, Uganda’s Batwa community lack voice, agency and influence in climate adaptation planning and actions.