Some 50 Baka Pygmy women drawn from four groups in the Upper Nyong Division have identified priority development projects for their area and the ways and means of funding them. The women all ...

In reality, the living conditions of indigenous women are devastating due to deforestation, making it difficult for their mission to be achieved. Cameroon: Indigenous Women Losing Their Forest in ...

Forced from their forests, Cameroon's female pygmies bear brunt of alcohol abuse. ... Pygmy women and Bantu children in southern Cameroon March 21, 2017. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Josiane Kouagheu.

Pygmy women in tattered sarongs squatted around several fires as they warmed water and cooked cassava. Most of the men were uncoiling large nets near the huts. About 100 Pygmies lived there.

Some Pygmy women, after having sex with a Bantu man, have given birth to half-Bantu babies, ... Study researcher Sarah Tishkoff (center) with Pygmy women from Cameroon.

Cameroon's government says more than 30 women, who were protesting taxes imposed on them by the fighters ,have been abducted by separatist rebels in the nation's Northwest region.

Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, has been somewhat of a mystery. Now new research suggests unique changes in the Pygmy's genome have both led ...

Cameroon has been gripped by a bloody conflict in its Anglophone regions since 2016, sparked by the brutal suppression of peaceful protests. The conflict has caused over 6,000 deaths and displaced ...

11/30/2023 November 30, 2023. Marthe Wandou, Esther Omam and Sally Mboumien are activists and affiliates of 1st National Women's Convention for Peace in Cameroon.

Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, has been somewhat of a mystery. Now new research suggests unique changes in the Pygmy's genome have both led ...

Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, has been somewhat of a mystery. Now new research suggests unique changes in the Pygmy's genome have both led ...