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    Eritrea

    Asmara, testimony of Modernist architecture in Eritrea

    Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017, as it constitutes "an exceptional testimony of early 20th century modernist architecture and its application in an African context."

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    Congo, Democratic Republic

    The Walé women of the D. R. of the Congo

    After being mothers for the first time, the young women of the Ntombe and Ngombe tribes (originating from the region of Ecuador in the D. R. of the Congo) become Walé (women who breastfeed) and begin a life of seclusion in which they will spend several years dedicating themselves exclusively to the care of their children.

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    Indonesia

    The Mentawai, the flower men tribe of Indonesia

    The Mentawai is a tribe native to the Mentawai Islands, off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. This group is made up of about 64,000 individuals spread over different islands, highlighting the island of Siberut, northern Pagai and southern Pagai and the island of Sipura.

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    Venezuela

    The Yanomami tribe, defenders of the Amazonia in Venezuela

    The Yanomami make up the largest relatively isolated indigenous people in South America, numbering 38,000. They live in the jungles and mountains of northern Brazil and southern Venezuela. These two areas together form the largest jungle indigenous territory in the world. In Venezuela, the Yanomami live in the Alto Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve.

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    Eritrea

    The Rashaida, the most conservative tribe in the Horn of Africa

    Some 80,000 Rashaida or Bani Rashids live along the desert coast of Eritrea. They are dedicated to the grazing and commercialization of dromedaries, as well as to the general trade with Arab countries. The Rashaida arrived on the coasts of Eritrea and Sudan a century ago from Saudi Arabia. The reason for their displacement was tribal wars and the Ottoman pressure.

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    Uganda

    The Batwa, the oldest tribe in Uganda

    The Batwa or Twa, also popularly known as pygmies, live in the jungle hills between Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the DR Congo. Until the 1960s, most Batwas lived by gathering and hunting. Population pressure exerted by the different Bantu ethnic groups, who live in this fertile region of Central Africa, has marginalized the Batwa to remote areas with few resources and has forced them to change their lives almost completely.

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