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The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 8 November. Bram Valkenborg will present his doctoral research focusing on extracting impactful hazard events from news articles using Large Language Models. Do not miss it!

Urban gullies are rapidly growing problem in many tropical cities of the Global South. In particular, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been severely affected. Follow the PhD defenses of Eric Lutete Landu (28/11) and Guy Ilombe Mawe (29/11) to learn more on this issue. 

The first geo-webinar of the 2024-2025 season will take place on Tuesday 15 October. Antoine Dille will give a presentation entitled "From Ground to Orbit: Integrating Fieldwork and Satellite Data for Landslide Research in Central Africa". Do not miss it!

The Kivu Citizen Observers report various natural hazards, and record their impacts occurring in eastern DRCongo, a region still under-documented. They are real change makers for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Discover in this News other Citizen Science initiatives and related research developed at the AfricaMuseum. 

A combination of urban growth and flood risk at lower elevations can push people to live in steeper, more dangerous terrain. Read the new study published in Earth’s Future!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 21 June. Hardy Nkodia will present his doctoral research focusing on the tectonic evolution of the foreland of the Mayombe Range (Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo). Do not miss it!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 31^st May. Guy Ilombe will present a recently published scientific paper entitled "What controls the expansion of urban gullies in tropical environments? Lessons learned from contrasting cities in D.R. Congo". Do not miss it!

The GeoRiska team is organising a workshop on hillslope dynamics and sediment budgets at the Royal Museum for Central Africa on the 16th of May 2024. You are cordially invited!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 12^th April. Imen Arfaoui will present part of her doctoral research focusing on unconventional hydrocarbon potential of Hot shales in Jeffara Basin North Africa. Do not miss it!