Batwa

[ bah-twah ]

noun

, plural Ba·twas, (especially collectively) Ba·twa.

1. Twa ( def ).

Example Sentences

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

A large-scale return to the park in 2018 led to a three-year campaign of forced expulsion that killed at least twenty Batwa members, according to Minority Rights Group International.

From Reuters

Over three years on, some Batwa are tired of waiting.

From Reuters

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

As barefoot children in ragged clothes wandered between the mud shacks of one Batwa settlement in June, residents described their fear of dying from hunger, childbirth or disease without legal access to their traditional livelihoods or the promised alternatives.

From Reuters