About 600,000 Pygmies are believed to live in Congo. Africa's third-largest country is emerging from a 4 1/2-year civil war, fueled in large part by the desire of both Congolese and their ...

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.

By Peter Barker (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 ...

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 ...

Unlike other refugees, this particular group of Pygmies had their own personal benefactor, or so it seemed: a woman they initially knew only as Ma Jacqui, who brought them here promising help, then ...

Congo's Pygmies are among central Africa's oldest indigenous peoples. For millennia, they have lived as hunter-gatherers, surviving off the forest's bounty of plants, birds and monkeys.

"Congo's indigenous people have always been very attached to and dependent on the forest, so when they leave the forest, they become very vulnerable," said Danny Molongi, 33, of the Mbandaka-based ...

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.

BUNIA, DR Congo (AFP) — Forty-six Pygmies have been massacred in eastern DR Congo's Ituri province by the notorious Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia, local sources said on Friday. "ADF rebels ...

Ekundanayo, who is not a pygmy, lived with the pygmies for two years in the 1980s. She said that at one time they were thought to be about 10 percent of the 60 million population of the Congo.

Congo’s Pygmies are among central Africa’s oldest indigenous peoples. For millennia, they have lived as hunter-gatherers, surviving off the forest’s bounty of plants, birds and monkeys.