Pygmies and Bantus flee a war caused by a tryst
Mukondo, Dr Congo (AFP) Nov 29, 2014 - It all began with a love affair a year ago between a Bantu and his Pygmy mistress, a tryst that so unnerved the enemy peoples of Congo's troubled Katanga province that war broke out. Fighting between the Bantu land-owners and the hunter-gatherers of the Twa Pygmy groups - pitting bows-and-arrows against machete blades - has since caused some 80,000 people to flee their homes in the mineral ... more

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