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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.

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 18^th November. Clemence Idukunda will present her doctoral research activities focusing on the assessment of community vulnerability to landslides and floods in northwestern Rwanda. Do not miss it!

On the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, find in this video five PhD students involved in disaster risk reduction in their country, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRCongo).

On 22 May 2021, the Nyiragongo volcano (DR Congo) erupted. Lava flows destroyed part of the city of Goma and thousands of people fled. In a new study published in Nature, an international team of researchers shows that this eruption could not be predicted.

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 24^th June. Jos Subira will present his doctoral research activities in the framework of seismic monitoring in the Virunga volcanic province (DR Congo). Do not miss it!