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Haunted by memories of an eruption in 2002 that killed 250 people and left 120,000 homeless, residents fled on foot with their belongings.

4 Min Read GOMA (Reuters) -A smoking trail of lava from a volcanic eruption covered hundreds of houses in eastern Congo on Sunday, leaving residents to pick gingerly through the wreckage for belongings and loved ones, though the flow halted just short of the city of Goma. Goma was thrown into panic on Saturday evening as Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most active and dangerous volcanoes, erupted, turning the night sky an eerie red and sending a wall of orange lava downhill towards the lakeside city of about 2 million people. Army spokesman Guillaume Njike said 13 were killed fleeing t...

English News and Press Release on World and 4 other countries about Health, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Epidemic and more; published on 19 May 2021 by UN SG

More than five million people displaced in DR Congo More than five million people displaced in DR Congo 23 de abril de 2021, 9:31Kinshasa, Apr 23 (Prensa Latina) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) records more than five million people internally displaced by the action of armed groups, violence against civil society and intercommunity conflicts, Radio Okapi reported on Friday. The magnitude of forced movements in the country is considered among the largest one globally, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi assessed, quoted by the local radio station. G...

Terrified by rumours that children would be forcibly vaccinated against Covid-19, distressed parents rushed to pick up their children from school in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) o…