KINSHASA, Congo -- Yongela Bongo hid the secret from her husband for the seven years they were married. But when he finally discovered the truth, he kicked her out on the street -- keeping their six ...

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 ...

POKOLA, Republic of Congo -- For Pygmies logging the rain forests of central Africa, the chain saw's whine signals the promise of work -- and threatens a way of life. As the Republic of Congo's timber ...

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Children of Congo Republic's pygmies will be able to attend special schools set up by retired French teachers in a plan to help fight discrimination against the forest dwellers ...

Two years later, a Congo Pygmy named Ota Benga was housed temporarily at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City—and then exhibited, briefly and controversially, at the Bronx Zoo. Just ...

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...

A human rights group files a complaint with the International Court in The Hague detailing abuses against Pygmies during Congo's six-year civil war. The group says an ethnic cleansing campaign by ...

It all began with a love affair a year ago between a Bantu and his Pygmy mistress, a tryst that so unnerved the enemy peoples of Congo's troubled Katanga province that war broke out. Fighting between ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 21 (UNHCR) - Among the tens of thousands of displaced Congolese people living in camps in North Kivu province, the Pygmies are particularly vulnerable and ...

Alfonsina Mukamurenzi, 50, and her husband, Buregeya Muzungu, 60, both members of a Bambuti, or pygmy community, stand outside their hut for a portrait near the village of Mugunga, just west of the ...

Written with the aid of Michael Nest, a freelance researcher with a PhD in African politics, Still A Pygmy documents how Isaac Bacirongo — a BaTempo Pygmy from the forests of the Democratic Republic ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The humanitarian situation in conflict-wracked eastern Congo has deteriorated alarmingly in the past 18 months with 8 million people in urgent need of assistance and women and ...