This is the reality for many Indigenous Batwa villages and rural areas across the country — without access to the electric grid, they must turn to the forest for sources of energy. Yet solar ...

At least 237,000 people, including Indigenous Batwa people, have been displaced following the latest fighting between government forces and M23 rebels in early 2025, according to the U.N. refugee ...

The Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 years ago from their ancestral lands to expand one of the country's biggest national parks ...

Both of these reductive stereotypes are often repeated, but neither gives the whole picture. A new study that examines the treatment of the Indigenous Batwa tribe in eastern Democratic Republic of ...

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 ...

Africa’s top human rights commission said the Democratic Republic of Congo violated the rights of Indigenous Batwa people when it forcibly evicted them from their ancestral territories and ...

Batwa man in Indigenous village, Ntondo, DRC. Image by Molly Bergen/WCS, WWF, WRI via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Among the commission’s 19 recommendations, several key ones stand out, said Gentil ...

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 ...

G.N.Miller/NYPost The park was created from the ancestral lands of indigenous tribes such as the Batwa, whose people were forced out in the 1970s, according to court papers. After decades of ...