Mbuti Pygmies in Epulu, Congo
Mbuti Pygmies in Epulu, Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Ituri province, Eastern Congo. Also known as the forest people, the Pygmies have an intricate knowledge of their natural surroundings. Filmed by WildlifeDirect in March 2007. For more information go to wildlifedirect.org/okapireserve
RDC-Ituri Grazie COOPI
Le donne del Carrefour comunitario (centro di aggregazione) di Angumu ringraziano COOPI per i progetti portati avanti per 9 anni nella regione orientale dell'Ituri in RDC. Affoyo=Grazie
Governor Jean of Ituri
Uganda ,D R Congo Vurra border post remain closed
Flevica, Ituri DRC Peacebuilders
Interview with Adubango Suzane of Flevica, a peacebuilding organisation from the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Flevica work on ethnic conflicts and development projects in Ituri.
Parc national des Quirimbas
Aire protégée terrestre et marine, Le Parc National de Quirimbas , situé à proximité de la frontière tanzanienne, a été créé en juin 2002 à la demande des communautés locales. Il couvre à la fois des espaces terrestres et marins et englobe 4 des éco-régions d'importance mondiale : forêt côtière d'Afrique du Sud-est, mangrove d'Afrique de l'Est, écorégion marine d'Afrique de l'Est, Forêt à Miombo et Savanes Orientales. Le projet vise à créer les conditions d'une gestion économiquement, socialement et écologiquement durable du parc national de Quirimbas, au bénéfice premier des populations locales qui ont été à l'origine de sa création. Il doit contribuer à mettre en place un cadre de gestion concertée et durable du Parc ainsi que les conditions sociales, institutionnelles et financières permettant d'assurer la pérennité du parc.
TOURISME EN RDC: 1 MINUTE AUX CHUTES DE ZONGO
Les chutes de Zongo en République Démocratique du Congo
RD CONGO : LA RESERVE STRATEGIQUE GENERALE
LA RESERVE STRATEGIQUE GENERALE
La mission de la RESERVE STRATEGIQUE GENERALE A POUR MISSION DE:
- Constituer des réserves des produits stratégiques pour faire e face à des situations de crise, de pénurie, de calamités naturelles et de catastrophes ;
- Assurer ou de promouvoir la production agropastorale et industrielle des produits de première nécessité ;
- Distribuer en gros et réguler les stocks de ces produits en fonction des besoins de la Nation.
VOIRLE SITE:
Part 3-Humanitaire-Retour des réfugiés,Ituri,RD Congo
Notre ASBL (Centres Socio-Sanitaires en République Démocratique du Congo) en action en Ituri, RD Congo. Retour des réfugiés originaires de Bunia, RD Congo.
Ituri de Samois au Chantier
Ituri de Samois à Veneux
Local Entrepreneurs take advantage of Bridge Collapse near Epulu, DRCongo
Local entrepreneurs ferry truck cargo across the Epulu River near the Okapi Conservation Projects headquarters in Epulu, DRCongo in locally made boats. The bridge collapsed when an overweight truck attempted to cross the bridge which is part of the TransAfrican highway.
1 p'tit tour de l'Ituri ? 'Jingle' animoto
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Soutenir les activités de conservation dans le Parc national de la Garamba
Cette vidéo sur le parc national de Garamba en République Démocratique du Congo illustre comment le projet prévoit la protection de la biodiversité, et ses efforts pour appuyer la réhabilitation et l'expansion de l'infrastructure du parc; notamment construire un hôpital pour améliorer les services de santé pour le personnel du parc ainsi que les communautés locales . Cette courte vidéo montre les principales activités dans le parc telles que des relevés aériens pour surveiller les activités illégales et les populations animales.
Sermon to Park Guards, Garamba National Park
Morning Sermon in Lingala to Park Guards and Workers, Garamba National Park (Video by J Sidle; August 15, 2011).
Kumuka 1993 -- Efe Pygmy Visit, Zaire (D.R. Congo) Pt. 1/5
This is a video document, 49 minutes in total length, of the interaction between Western adventure travelers and one of the oldest human societies in central Africa.
In June 1993, a group of tourists (American, Australian, British, Canadian, French) on a commercial overland trek (Kumuka Trans-Africa) visited an Efe pygmy camp named Bandikoda, on the Laya River, in the eastern Ituri forest. This camp was situated a short pirogue ride downriver from the village of Ngeleza, about halfway between Bunia and Beni, in what was then the Haut-Zaire region of Zaire, now Orientale province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (ca. 1° 16' N, 29° 42' W). On some maps, this river is named Lowje or Loya River, but it is not the Loya River in the MSN Encarta World Atlas - that river is situated two degrees further west in the Ituri.
Our guides were Lese villagers, non-Pygmy agriculturalists who exchange their rice, tobacco, manioc and some manufactured articles for meat and honey obtained by the Efe hunters and foragers. The Efe and Lese communicate in mutually intelligible dialects of the KiLese language. The Efe at Bandikoda had become habituated to visits by mazungus (foreign tourists, white people), and they graciously permitted five of us to pitch our tents and spend the entire day and night in their midst. The Efe welcomed us with forty-five minutes of singing and dancing, accompanied by drums and honey whistles. There followed some bartering for souvenirs, including the likembe thumb piano, the five-stringed zoma harp, pounded bark loincloths, and the asuba monkey-skin wristband worn by hunters -- the sound of the bowstring snapping against it alerts other hunters in the vicinity.
Some travelers then had designs drawn on their hands and faces by the Efe women -- these took several weeks to rub off! In the afternoon, we joined the males on a hunt through the forest; singing as they went, they triangulated their prey with hunting dogs who wear resonant wooden boxes. The men cover their skins with the yellow powder from a tree before returning to camp. In the evening, we cooked a meal of spaghetti and shared it with our inquisitive hosts.
Further reading -
Grinker, Roy Richard (1994). Houses in the rain forest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in Central Africa, Berkeley: University of California Press. [on the relationship between the Lese and Efe]
Wheeler, William F. (2000). Efe pygmies: archers of the African rain forest. New York : Rizzoli. [large format photographs of the Efe on Nduye River, north of Epulu]