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The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 28 March. Mercy Ashepet will present her doctoral research focusing on the citizen observers networks developed in the framework of the ATRAP and HARISSA projects in southwestern Uganda. Do not miss it!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 23^rd February. Jean Claude Maki Mateso will present, on behalf of the CRSN-UOB-MRAC team, the lessons learned and perspectives for disaster risk reduction following the landslide and flash flood event of 4 May 2023 in the village of Bushushu (South Kivu, DR Congo). Do not miss it!

In the series of geowebinars organized by the Earth Sciences Department of the RMCA: Exceptional session on Friday January 26. The Kivu Citizen Observers will report on their activities to collect data and raise awareness of natural hazard disasters in their communities in the provinces of North and South Kivu (DRC). Do not miss this geowebinar!
 

Improving understanding and awareness of the risks associated with natural hazards among populations at risk is essential to achieving the objectives of the UN Sendai framework. Educational games are an attractive way of helping to achieve this goal. Such an approach based on educational games is being tested in eastern DRC, with the Hazagora and Chukuwa games. 

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 12^th January. Evelyne Safari will present her doctoral research focusing on the detailed geological map of Idjwi Island (South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo). Do not miss it!

Today is the international GIS Day! This is a nice opportunity to look at how GIS helps the GeoRiskA researchers of the AfricaMuseum in their research and activities.

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 31^st March. Axel Deijns will present his doctoral research focusing on the use of remote sensing to understand landslide and flash flood event occurrence in the changing tropical environment of East Africa. Do not miss it!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 10^th March. Inge Cools will present her doctoral research on "Ore-forming processes of gold mineralization in Central Africa, focusing on Imonga and Namoya mineralization in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Do not miss it!

Building on a GeoRiskA team research, a team of international researchers, including one from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has combined satellite and archival imagery to show how one African city’s changing water usage influences land movements near and just below the surface.