In a stunning display of resilience and cultural heritage, members of the Batwa and Bakiga communities made an extraordinary ...

Kisoro — SOME of the Batwa who were evicted from Bwindi, Mgahinga and Echuya forest reserves in South Western Uganda are now stranded in Kisoro. "They are wondering on the streets of Kisoro with no ...

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 Batwa lived for millennia ...

Scott Kellermann was a successful family doctor with a medical practice in Nevada City, Calif. At age 55, he could have easily retired and gone golfing. But instead, Kellermann, a native of New ...

Eviction, displacement, forced migration, expulsion, ejection, and removal: These words inadequately describe the experience of being thrown out of one’s home and off one’s land at gunpoint. It ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — 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 ...

A recent study looks at two polarized characterizations of Indigenous people in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo: forest guardians vs. forest destroyers. The two ...

A Batwa woman and her child in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Uganda. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...