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Lake Kivu port, Nyiragongo volcano, Hutu refugees
Goma
The city of Goma sits under the shadow of Nyiragongo Volcano on the north shore of Lake Kivu, adjacent to Gisenyi across the border in Rwanda. Goma is capital of North Kivu province, ethnically and geographically similar to South Kivu based around Bukavu.
Recent history of Goma has been dominated by the contrasting but destructive volcanic eruption and continuing effects of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Both have been devastating to the local population.
At the peak of the 1994 crisis 10,000 Hutu refugees crossed the border into Goma every hour. Numbers reached almost one million, accompanied by disease and many deaths. To this day, heavily armed rebel genocidaire forces remain in the surrounding mountains.
The 2002 eruption of Nyiragongo Volcano resulted in a flow of lava through the city itself, destroying a large portion of the buildings as it made it way to the lake.
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Goma Port
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