For Congo's Pygmies, expulsion and forest clearance end a way of life


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Jan 2017

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

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 peoples. For millennia, they have lived as hunter-gatherers, surviving off the forest's bounty of plants, birds and monkeys.

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