But behind these polished tabletops and intricately carved armchairs lies a story of shadowy supply chains, porous borders, ...

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Pygmy populations across the Congo Basin suffer "appalling socio-economic conditions and the lack of civil and land rights," according to a recent study conducted for the London-based Rainforest ...

Pygmy representatives have asked the United Nations to set up a court to try government and rebel fighters from the Democratic Republic of Congo for acts of cannibalism against their people. Sinafasi ...

August 27, 2014: the UN Mission for the Stabilization of peace in the DRC (MONUSCO) estimated the over 500,000 displaced people have collected in Congo’s Katanga province. The displaced people are ...

Indigenous communities in the Congo have harvested marijuana as long as they can remember. Now, with no land to call their own, they turn to selling—with dire consequences. ByNina Strochlic ...

Pygmy tells of journey to Sydney from Congo forests An Australian who grew up as a pygmy in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo has published an account of his journey.

Pygmies - so-called for their diminutive height - are in danger of extinction in Congo, according to the United Nations Population Fund, which estimates that they now make up only two percent of the ...

One of Africa's oldest peoples, the pygmies, live a life of shame and virtual enslavement. Once proud hunters in the forests of the Congo, they now live as servants to the wealthy or are forced into ...