Tag: Goma
Thirty years later, survivors live with it “every day”
Are thirty years enough to heal from genocide? Haunted by this question, the writer Isabelle Darras went to Rwanda in 2023, to meet those who experienced the Tutsi genocide as…
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, violence creates record population displacements
Sad record in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Some 6.9 million people are currently displaced within the country, a record, particularly due to renewed violence in the east of…
Protests against UN mission in Goma turn to looting
Installations of the United Nations mission (Monusco) in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo were looted by angry demonstrators, ten days after a call by the…
Nyiragongo volcano eruption destroyed hundreds of homes, fractured soil in Goma
The Nyiragongo volcano, which dominates Goma and Lake Kivu, woke up on the night of May 22 to 23. – Justin Kabumba / AP / SIPA Between 900 and 2,500…