Hema (ethnicity)

The Hema are an ethnolinguistic group with about 160,000 members located in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular the Ituri region and Orientale province, as well as parts of Uganda and Rwanda. Its linguistic lineage is: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, J, and Nyoro-Ganda. The Hema are pastoralists and the preferential treatement given to them by Ugandan officials is blamed for igniting the recent Ituri conflict.

External links

• Hema from ethnologue.com