In the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, park guards and Congolese soldiers, with support from international conservation groups, have undertaken a brutal, three-year ...

Kigali — Hunger could wipe out the Batwa ethnic group in Uganda unless urgent intervention is enforced, researchers have said. "Many Batwa are dying of hunger because they do not know how to survive ...

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 ...

This article was updated on 13 April, 2022 to indicate a response from France's international development agency, (AFD). An in-depth report published by the NGO Minority Rights Group International ...

The Echuya Batwa—often known as “keepers of the forest”—are an endangered tribe of forest-dwelling hunter-gatherer people. They lived peacefully off their land without any outside influence until 1991 ...

Eric Tumuhairwe, from the Batwa community, takes us on a trip through his ancestral forest Evicted from their ancestral forest homes three decades ago in a move to conserve wildlife, many of Uganda's ...

In Bundibugyo District, along the Uganda–DRC border, the Batwa community now live in Ntandi Town Council after they were evicted from Semuliki National Park in the 1990s following its gazettement. The ...

Heritage. The main grass-thatched facility which houses several items that depict the culture of the Batwa at the heritage centre. Photos by Eve Muganga. The Batwa are an indigenous group of people ...

Murder, rape, arson, immolating children and mutilating corpses are among some of the rights abuses allegedly being carried out against indigenous people by the military and forest rangers at Kahuzi ...