They are in praise of a good honey harvest, but there is no harvest as the Batwa are no longer allowed to gather honey, or anything else, from the forest. Instead, these indigenous people take ...

About 60% of the Batwa people are still living in temporary settlements and, therefore, depend on exploitative casual labour, a report has revealed. According to the report by Resilient Africa ...

It happened to the Batwa people of Kanungu district in southwestern Uganda. Batwa podcast Invisible Flock introduces the episode about the Batwa community’s story. Source: Ilan Kelman A new ...

The Batwa were evicted from the lush forests of eastern DRC in the 1970s during a campaign to formally create a park and protect a section of the Congo Basin. Thousands of people were forcibly ...

Three decades since the Batwa people in Uganda were evicted from their ancestral lands to create national parks, members of the group live in poverty and marginalization at the fringes of society.

ALICE NYAMIHANDA, a 23-year old Ugandan, became the first of her Batwa people to graduate from university last month. The Batwa, or Twa, are among the oldest of the peoples in the Great Lakes Region.

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 ...