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 ...

An ancient disease is creating “havoc” among one of the world’s most impoverished and neglected populations, aid workers are warning. And the plight of the African pygmies is worsened by a catalogue ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In what may seem like a David-versus-Goliath contest, Pygmy forest-dwellers from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday challenged the World Bank over logging in the ...

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 ...

One November day in 1935 a babbling, excited band of pygmies pranced into the Catholic Mission at Buta, in the Belgian Congo, carrying with them a baby okapi, scarcely a dozen days old. They had ...

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 ...

According to a recent survey, pygmy chimpanzees in the Congo Basin may have been hunted so extensively that the survival of the species is at risk. Gland, Switzerland - Pygmy chimpanzees or bonobos — ...