KINSHASA (Reuters) - 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 ...

Religious groups and delegates of the Pygmy people indigenous to the Democratic Republic of Congo have met to push forward with a campaign to protect the Congo Basin rainforest, participants said.

Pygmy activists from Congo 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 northeastern corner ...

Women look for clay soil, which they use to make pottery near Kagorwa Pygmy camp on Idjwi island in the Democratic Republic of Congo, November 23, 2016. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 30,899 people played ...

Justin Wren knelt and leaned over Andibo, an 18-month-old infant who had grown to mean so much to him since inexplicably he found himself here, in the stirring wilds of the African Congo. Andibo ...

(Zenger News) – A Congolese Pygmy hunter–gatherer tribe has seen its members succumb to alcoholism as logging companies and conservation groups abuse and coerce them into relinquishing their ...

After fighting addiction and depression, mixed martial artist Justin Wren found his calling among the pygmy tribes of the Congo. Two years after his first trip to Africa and five years removed from ...

A delegation of ‘Pygmies’ from Democratic Republic of Congo are visiting Washington this week to discuss World Bank-sanctioned logging of their rainforest home. The ‘Pygmies’ are scheduled to meet ...

Best known as a quarterfinalist on The Ultimate Fighter, Justin Wren’s career and life has had its ups-and-downs with drugs and depression. In 2013, Wren found a higher purpose in his life and started ...

Loggers have teamed with indigenous Pygmies to establish the largest ever eco-certified logging scheme. The 750,000-hectare tract of forest, located in the Republic of Congo, is certified by the ...

MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sixteen-year-old Elisée Nyanokonzo used to be afraid to walk alone around the streets of Mbandaka, the crumbling provincial of ...

IDJWI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - On Idjwi, the largest island in Democratic Republic of Congo, a way of life is dying. Congo's Pygmies are among central Africa's oldest indigenous ...