En République démocratique du Congo, l’accaparement des terres reste l’une des causes de conflits fonciers entre les communautés elles-mêmes et parfois entre les communautés et les industriels qui y exploitent. Ces conflits latents finissent souvent par dégénérer.
People whose ancestors inhabited a place or a country when persons from another culture or ethnic background arrived on the scene and dominated them through conquest, settlement, or other means and who today live more in conformity with their own social, economic, and cultural customs and traditions than those of the country of which they now form a part.
Source: Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, UNHCHR, 1991.