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A dying way of life for Congo's Pygmies 
The Bambuti, one of several Pygmy groups in Congo, are among central Africa's oldest indigenous peoples. They have been pushed out of a native land to which they could assert no legal title, to make way for an exploding ethnic Bantu population on Idjwi, the largest island in Democratic Republic of Congo. 
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January 12, 2017 
Bahavu children wash on the shore of Lake Kivu, on Idjwi island, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.... 
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The Wider Image: A dying way of life for Congo's Pygmies 
Bahavu children wash on the shore of Lake Kivu, on Idjwi island, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Idjwi, the largest island in Democratic Republic of Congo, a way of life is dying. The Bambuti, one of several Pygmy groups in Congo, 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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January 12, 2017 
A 10-year-old Pygmy girl laughs as she works weeding the land of a Bahavu farmer on the shore of Lake... 
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The Wider Image: A dying way of life for Congo's Pygmies 
A 10-year-old Pygmy girl laughs as she works weeding the land of a Bahavu farmer on the shore of Lake Kivu. Idjwi, in the middle of Lake Kivu, has been spared the ravages of wars in eastern Congo that have killed millions of people since 1996, mostly from hunger and disease. But for its indigenous inhabitants, the advance of another culture has proved nearly as devastating. The Bambutis, like Pygmy groups across central Africa, have been pushed out of a native land to which they could assert no legal title -- in this case, to make way for an exploding ethnic Bantu population who now make up more than 95 percent of Idjwi's 280,000 inhabitants.

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January 12, 2017 
A Pygmy woman, 20, shakes a pendo, a musical instrument made from a metal box filled with gravel, to... 
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The Wider Image: A dying way of life for Congo's Pygmies 
A Pygmy woman, 20, shakes a pendo, a musical instrument made from a metal box filled with gravel, to calm her crying child, at Kagorwa Pygmy camp on Idjwi island. Around 1980, the Bambuti say, local authorities and customary chiefs from the Bahavu, a Bantu people, expelled them from the forests and turned the land over to Bahavu to farm and build houses.

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January 12, 2017 
A Bahavu woman and her son stand in front their house which has an Orange sign above the door in Bugarula... 
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The Wider Image: A dying way of life for Congo's Pygmies 
A Bahavu woman and her son stand in front their house which has an Orange sign above the door in Bugarula village on Idjwi island. The Bambuti lost their livelihood and, with few if any assets, no education, and no experience of how to support themselves in an alien environment, their society has withered.

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January 12, 2017 
Mwenyezi, 36, washes her baby who is suffering from fever, at Kagorwa Pygmy camp on Idjwi island. Mwenyezi... 
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The Wider Image: A dying way of life for Congo's Pygmies 
Mwenyezi, 36, washes her baby who is suffering from fever, at Kagorwa Pygmy camp on Idjwi island. Mwenyezi cannot afford to take her baby for medical care. Her baby has scars from "bleeding," which some Pygmies use to try and treat certain diseases. "We are no more than 7,000 on the island, relocated on uncultivable land and scattered on the coast in makeshift camps on the fringe of villages, in total destitution," said Charles Livingstone, the chief of Idjwi's Pygmies.

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January 12, 2017 
Habimana, 45, poses for a portrait at Kagorwa Pygmy camp, on Idjwi island. Most cannot read or write,... 
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Habimana, 45, poses for a portrait at Kagorwa Pygmy camp, on Idjwi island. Most cannot read or write, and lack the money to send their children to school. "Before, in the forest, we had everything we needed for an easy and happy life: food, shelter, medicine, clothes," said Habimana, a Bambuti woman of 45. "It's in our nature to live like that."

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January 12, 2017 
A Bahavu landlord (L) and Pygmy workers have an argument about wages. Adolphine Byaywuwa Muley, head... 
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A Bahavu landlord (L) and Pygmy workers have an argument about wages. Adolphine Byaywuwa Muley, head of a local group for the empowerment of Pygmy women, acknowledges that there has been little concrete progress since she became minister of agriculture and environment for South Kivu’s province in 2013, and says lack of land is the root of the Bambutis' plight. Ijdwi's local customary authorities say that the Bambutis sold their land, and Muley said South Kivu was "a province where there are a lot of land issues, land disputes everywhere, so you are told that ... nothing can be done".

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January 12, 2017 
A Bahavu woman stands (L) as Pygmy women sell pottery in the Bahavu village of Bugarula on Idjwi island.... 
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A Bahavu woman stands (L) as Pygmy women sell pottery in the Bahavu village of Bugarula on Idjwi island. Gervais Rubenga Ntawenderundi, the Bantu customary chief in the north of the island where the Bambuti live, said there were "no problems on the island between the two ethnic groups ... The pygmies have never been driven out of the forest and have always lived near the villages in this way."

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January 12, 2017 
Ahadi, 23, carries heavy stones intended for the construction of an hotel in a village near Kagorwa Pygmy... 
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Ahadi, 23, carries heavy stones intended for the construction of an hotel in a village near Kagorwa Pygmy camp on Idjwi island. Ahadi works for a Bahavu landlord and earns 500 CDF (0.46 USD) per day. At national level, Congo's parliament first discussed a law to protect Pygmy rights in 2007, but it has yet to vote on a bill. Thus the Bambuti scrape a living clearing fields or carrying heavy loads for Bahavu landowners, who often treat them with contempt.

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January 12, 2017 
Habimana, 45, and her children walk to market to sell pottery on Idjwi island. Habimana weeds the fields... 
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Habimana, 45, and her children walk to market to sell pottery on Idjwi island. Habimana weeds the fields of a Bahavu businessman building a hotel on the coast, but earns only one-third as much as other workers, and has to sell pottery at market to make extra money. "I'm used to it," she said. "We are treated as sub-humans."

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January 12, 2017 
Men repair fishing nets, at Kagorwa Pygmy camp on Idjwi island. At the Kagorwa camp, where close to 300... 
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Men repair fishing nets, at Kagorwa Pygmy camp on Idjwi island. At the Kagorwa camp, where close to 300 Pygmies were resettled from their ancestral Nyamusisi forest, crops will not grow on the land, and many of the children are gaunt and undernourished from a diet of "sombe": simple cassava leaves boiled in water, without salt or oil. "This is the only food we have in sufficient quantity," said Adele, the camp's dean. "There are no more birds, no snakes, no monkeys."

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January 12, 2017 
Manguist, 24, stands in a canoe on Lake Kivu just off Idjwi island. The fishermen who set out onto the... 
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Manguist, 24, stands in a canoe on Lake Kivu just off Idjwi island. The fishermen who set out onto the bright blue lake in canoes don't have much more luck. This evening, they have brought back only a handful of very small fish. Manguist, a 24-year-old fisherman, says he has given up on the old Bambuti existence: "Our life from before is finished - but we don't deserve this misery. I want to leave the island, go to town, live in a brick house and educate my children."

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January 12, 2017 
Melissa, 20, who is Bahavu, returns from market of the village of Burgarula on Idjwi island. Minister... 
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Melissa, 20, who is Bahavu, returns from market of the village of Burgarula on Idjwi island. Minister Muley believes that at least, through patient lobbying, understanding of the Bambutis' situation is growing. She said the attitude that "Pygmies don’t have the same human value as the Bantus" had not been helped by the fact that the pygmies themselves thought it was "normal to be discriminated against ... But, with awareness," she said, "the indigenous people have understood that they have rights like everyone else."

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January 12, 2017 
A woman boils cassava greens as she breastfeeds at Kagorwa Pygmy camp on Idjwi island in the Democratic... 
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A woman boils cassava greens as she breastfeeds at Kagorwa Pygmy camp on Idjwi island in the Democratic Republic of Congo, May 18, 2016. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo SEARCH "BAMBUTI" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 
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January 12, 2017 
A woman makes a clay pot at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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A woman makes a clay pot at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
A boy plays football, at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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A boy plays football, at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
Children hold used syringes, which they found discarded near Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo... 
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Children hold used syringes, which they found discarded near Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
A nurse (R), prepares to give an injection to Voyage, 40, a Pygmy man who is suffering from a wound on... 
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A nurse (R), prepares to give an injection to Voyage, 40, a Pygmy man who is suffering from a wound on his finger that has turned gangrenous, at the health centre in the village of Bugarula. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
Voyage, 40, waits for a nurse at the health centre in Bugarula village on Idjwi island in the Democratic... 
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Voyage, 40, waits for a nurse at the health centre in Bugarula village on Idjwi island in the Democratic Republic of Congo, November 24, 2016. Voyage has a wound on his finger that has become gangrenous. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo SEARCH "BAMBUTI" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 
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January 12, 2017 
A woman, 60, who is suffering from malaria rests in her house at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. The woman died from... 
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A woman, 60, who is suffering from malaria rests in her house at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. The woman died from her illness a few days later. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
People gather around a fire in Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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People gather around a fire in Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
A child tries to re-light a fire at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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A child tries to re-light a fire at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
Manguist, 24, sleeps at home in Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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Manguist, 24, sleeps at home in Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
Mwenyezi, 36, plays a guitar at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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Mwenyezi, 36, plays a guitar at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
Kavuha, 73, repairs a container at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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Kavuha, 73, repairs a container at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
A fisherman works on Lake Kivu. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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A fisherman works on Lake Kivu. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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Habimana, 45, stands in front of her house, at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. Habimana has lived alone with her... 
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Habimana, 45, stands in front of her house, at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. Habimana has lived alone with her four daughters since her husband died of malaria in 2014. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
People sing and dance at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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People sing and dance at Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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January 12, 2017 
Women look for clay soil, which they use to make pottery near Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di... 
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Women look for clay soil, which they use to make pottery near Kagorwa Pygmy camp. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo 
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Lake Kivu is seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo, November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo SEARCH... 
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Lake Kivu is seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo, November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Therese Di Campo SEARCH "BAMBUTI" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 
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