The arrival of food for up to 70,000 people has also coincided with a cholera outbreak among some of the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the area. The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo has left an ...

A satellite image has captured the simultaneous eruptions of Africa’s most active volcanoes, Mount Nyamuragira and Mount Nyiragongo, located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Taken in 2014 by ...

An estimated million people are now crammed into Goma. Twice in recent years Nyiragongo's eruptions have sent molten rock flowing toward the city. In 1977 lava raced down the mountain at more than ...

People have fled Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid fears of a second volcanic eruption. The area has been rattled by aftershocks since one of Africa’s most active volcanos ...

This occurred during Nyiragongo's lethal eruptions in 1977 and 2002, wreaking havoc on the city of Goma and its people. In November 2002, ten months after the latest eruption, a new lava lake ...

It was announced in December 2024 that the underwater volcano was creeping toward an eruption, the first since 2015. While scientists don't have an exact timeline of when the volcano could erupt ...