Echuya Batwa, commonly known as pygmies, are an endangered group of people around Echuya Forest Reserve in Kisoro and Kabale ...

Paul Du Chaillu among the pygmies. - Scanned 1890 Engraving Warrior of the Aka people, Congo, wood engraving, published 1893 Warrior of the Aka people. The Aka or Bayaka (also BiAka, Babenzele) are a ...

From the Mbuti tribes’ descriptions, he thought it was a donkey. In 1900, a German entrepreneur kidnapped some Mbuti pygmy tribespeople from their Ituri Forest village in the Congo. His plan was to ...

The host organization is expecting that the conference will be a huge mission event with 400,000 attendants if the conference draws 100,000 people from each city ... including the establishment of ...

What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...

Authorities investigating the deaths of at least 60 people in northwestern Congo suspect the water source in one of the areas may have been contaminated, the World Health Organization said Friday.

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between ...

Researchers are conducting testing on a pygmy sperm whale that washed ashore in Pismo Beach last week. Officials with The Marine Mammal Center (TMMC) say it’s rare for these types of whales to ...