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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.

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 10^th February. Blaise Mafuko Nyandwi will present his doctoral research highlighting the volcanic risk mitigation paradox in Goma through risk perception and coping behaviour before and after the 2021 Nyiragongo eruption (East DR Congo). Do not miss it!

17 January 2002: It was 21 year ago... The Nyiragongo volcano erupted and destroyed part of the city of Goma (DR Congo). On this News page, find a video of witnesses of this eruption, complemented by a text describing this major event of the eruptive history of Nyiragongo.

The first 2023 geo-webinar will take place on Friday 20^th January. Toussaint Mugaruka Bibentyo will present his doctoral research entitled "Weathering, rock type, bedrock incision and landslides in an extremely rapidly incised tropical river: the Ruzizi gorge in the Kivu Rift (DR Congo)". Do not miss it!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 16^th December. Tony Kayembe-Kitenge will present his doctoral research activities focusing on metal exposure and birth defects in the Katanga Copperbelt (D.R. Congo). Do not miss it!

Does the movement of a landslide change when a city is built on it? New research shows how more than 70 years of urban growth have disturbed the displacements of a large and now densely-inhabited landslide in the city of Bukavu, in eastern D.R. Congo.