Pygmies women and children in the south of Cameroon on February 21, 2017. The girl in white is pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Josiane Kouagheu.\n By Josiane ...

Some 50 Pygmies of the Baka clan lead me single file through a steaming rain forest in Cameroon. Scrambling across tree trunks over streams, we hack through heavy undergrowth with machetes and cut ...

Despite their diminutive size, African pygmies have taken a giant step back in time. A new genetic investigation indicates that common ancestors of these hunter-gatherers and their taller, farming ...

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 to ...

DJIBOT, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sporting patchy bruises on her forehead and right cheek, Maria moves gingerly as her four young children chase each other in their pygmie camp on the ...

Driven from their ancestral lands by logging and mining firms, many of the Baka are turning to alcohol to cope DJIBOT, Cameroon, May 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - S porting patchy bruises on her ...