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Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...
GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 21 (UNHCR) - Among the tens of thousands of displaced Congolese people living in camps in North Kivu province, the Pygmies are particularly vulnerable and ...
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Dozens of Pygmies in Democratic Republic of Congo's southeast were killed by Bantu militiamen in the past week, the U.N. peacekeeping mission said on Wednesday, in an escalation ...
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Children of Congo Republic's pygmies will be able to attend special schools set up by retired French teachers in a plan to help fight discrimination against the forest dwellers ...
Alfonsina Mukamurenzi, 50, and her husband, Buregeya Muzungu, 60, both members of a Bambuti, or pygmy community, stand outside their hut for a portrait near the village of Mugunga, just west of the ...
This 1939 black and white classroom film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films in collaboration with H.C. Raven of the American Museum of Natural History depicts indigeonous Central African ...
MUGUNGA, Congo -- When he dreams, Pygmy chief Byeragi Ngenderezi dreams of having basic things: a good plastic tarp, some decent fishing nets, perhaps a few garden hoes. When he dreams big, he ...
Livia Simoka travels to the remote jungles of the Republic of the Congo to spend five months living with the isolated pygmy tribe the Mbendjele.
MUKONDO, Democratic Republic of the Congo, December 15 (UNHCR) - A bitter row over adultery earlier this year in the heart of Africa triggered conflict between the Luba and Twa people, leaving many ...