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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Evicted from their ancestral forest homes three decades ago in a move to conserve wildlife, many of Uganda's Batwa people struggle for a more dignified way of life. On a hike into the Bwindi ...