Batwa
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They are made from the skin of a lechwe antelope by the Batwa men and worn by the women or used by the women to protect their babies from the elements.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025
He said such threats would remain so long as the government failed to allocate the Batwa budget funds and land as promised in 2019.
From Reuters • Aug. 2, 2023
Over 90% of its 87,000 indigenous Batwa people have lost legal access to their native territory turned into conservation areas and are desperately poor, according to a 2009 United Nations report.
From Reuters • Aug. 2, 2023
Yet the Batwa want a place to call home and recognition as an endangered indigenous people so they have better protection under international law.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2022
The two groups are respectively called Batwa and Wambutti.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward
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