Pygmies in Congo Condemned to Life on the Outside. Descendants of Central Africa's Earliest Inhabitants Face Intense Prejudice and Lack Political Power. February 23, 2002. By Arnaud Zajtman.

The chief of Congo's Pygmy tribe says he may soon let loggers cut his people's forests, and all he expects in return are soap and a few bags of salt. IE 11 is not supported.

LAKE TUMBA, Congo — Pygmy chief Mbomba Bokenu says he may soon let loggers cut his people’s forest, and all he expects in return is soap and a few bags of salt. “The Pygmies are suffering ...

LAKE TUMBA, Congo (AP) — Pygmy chief Mbomba Bokenu says he may soon let loggers cut his people's forest, and all he expects in return are soap and a few bags of salt. "The Pygmies are suffering ...

Why Pygmies Are Dealing Weed to Survive. 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 ...

PYGMY activists from Congo today demanded that the United Nations set up a tribunal to try government and rebel fighters accused of slaughtering and eating Pygmies during fighting in the ...

When Congo Republic's northern pygmies go out into the forest these days, some will be carrying hand-held satellite tracking devices along with their traditional bows and spears.

Congo's Pygmies are among central Africa's oldest indigenous peoples. Idjwi, in the middle of Lake Kivu, has been spared the ravages of wars in eastern Congo that have killed millions of people ...

Mbuti pygmy men, from left, Faizi Malambi, Kawaya Situka, Besei, and Kange Ambali carry their hunting nets and spears as they await the start of the day’s hunt March 18 in the Okapi Wildlife ...

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 in a two-year ...

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 ...