Despite the end of the Second Congo War, militias from the Hema and Lendu ethnic groups have continued low-level conflict in this province since 2003. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this province in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that shares its name with a major rainforest within it.
ANSWER: Ituri Province [accept Ituri Rainforest or Forêt tropicale de l’Ituri; accept Ituri conflict]
[10h] These pygmy people, who were targeted by a 2003 genocide called effacer le tableau, or “wiping the slate,” are severely threatened by the ongoing deforestation of Ituri. They are the subject of The Forest People, but not The Mountain People, by anthropologist Colin Turnbull.
ANSWER: Mbuti [or Bambuti]
[10e] This medical non-profit, which was accused of institutional racism in 2020 for its different treatment of “national” and “international” employees, operates several hospitals in Ituri. It was founded during the Biafra War.
ANSWER: Doctors Without Borders [or MSF or Médecins Sans Frontières]
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