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  Democratic Republic of Congo volcano erupts for first time in years, sending people fleeing from major city "Baaboons" <biden-voters@cnn.coma> - 2021-05-23 15:15 +0200
    Re: Democratic Republic of Congo volcano erupts for first time in years, sending people fleeing from major city slate_leeper <lcgh-edlf@xemaps.com> - 2021-05-24 09:04 -0400
      Re: Democratic Republic of Congo volcano erupts for first time in yea rs, sending people fleeing from major city Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2021-05-24 13:08 +0000

#22 — Democratic Republic of Congo volcano erupts for first time in years, sending people fleeing from major city

A volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted Saturday, 
turning the sky above a fearsome red and causing evacuation 
plans to be activated in a major city devastated by Mount 
Nyiragongo’s last activity.

The volcano in central Africa last swamped the city of Goma with 
lava in January 2002, leaving more than 100,000 people homeless 
and hundreds dead by some counts. Well over one million people 
live near the active crater, with Goma just a dozen miles south.

A DRC government spokesman, Patrick Muyaya, said Saturday that 
Goma’s evacuation plan had been activated, as the Associated 
Press reported that thousands were already fleeing, often on 
foot. A din of people and honking horns could be heard in videos 
of the red-glowing eruption shared on social media, and Rwandan 
officials said that more than 3,500 Congolese people had sought 
refuge across the border in nearby Rwanda.

Rubavu, Rwanda has received more than 3,500 Congolese seeking 
refuge from the Nyiragongo volcanic eruption. The national 
contingency plan is in place to ensure safety and humanitarian 
services. pic.twitter.com/2JGTYjsuhs

— Ministry in charge of Emergency Management (@RwandaEmergency) 
May 22, 2021
Lava coursed onto a highway linking Goma with the city of Beni, 
according to the AP. Reuters said it was approaching an airport 
as the city grappled with power outages. Officials and experts 
gave mixed assessments on the threat the lava posted to Goma.

A United Nations peacekeeping mission in the area said that Goma 
seemed safe, though officials remained on “alert.”

“Current assessments indicate eruption doesn’t threaten the city 
itself,” the British embassy in the Congo echoed in a statement. 
Celestin Kasereka, who leads scientific research at the Goma 
Volcano Observatory, told reporters he also doubted lava could 
make it Goma.

But Dario Tedesco, a volcanologist in Goma, told Reuters that 
lava was flowing toward the city center after initially heading 
for Rwanda.

“Now Goma is the target,” Tedesco said. “It’s similar to 2002. … 
It might stop before or go on. It’s difficult to forecast.”

The U.N. mission MONUSCO tweeted that it was running 
reconnaissance flights and posted footage of a fiery landscape.

????Activité volcanique aux alentours de Goma: la MONUSCO fait 
des vols de reconnaissance.

La lave ne semble pas se diriger vers la ville de Goma. Nous 
restons en alerte. pic.twitter.com/JQmz7v16Ne

— MONUSCO (@MONUSCO) May 22, 2021
Congo President Félix Tshisekedi said he would cut his trip to 
Europe short to return home Sunday to coordinate aid.

Government spokesperson Muyaya said that the prime minister had 
called an emergency meeting and that authorities would set more 
plans in motion Sunday.

Muyaya urged people to avoid engaging with “everything that is 
being said in social media” in the face of an “extremely serious 
situation.” He vowed that officials would do their best to keep 
people updated and manage a crisis that “touches us all."

The AP said there were no immediate reports of casualties, as 
some residents complained of what they said was a delay in 
information. Dorcas Mbulayi told the Associated Press that she 
left home for Mount Goma as the volcanic activity began and 
faulted officials “for not informing us in time about the 
possible volcanic eruption.”

In one especially deadly eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in 1977, 
around 2,000 people were reported killed.

“This is the most dangerous volcano in the world!” volcanologist 
Dario Tedesco told Science magazine last year, suggesting 
another disaster could strike.

Video of Saturday’s new threat circulated widely. Charles 
Balagizi, a geochemist and geohazards researcher at Goma Volcano 
Observatory, posted footage of a towering cloud of smoke lit 
bright red against a dark sky, with the lights of buildings all 
around.

#Nyiragongo volcano is erupting ?? pic.twitter.com/6z0dkF3hRP

— Charles Balagizi (@CharlesBalagizi) May 22, 2021
Posting another video later, Balagizi said a new “vent” — an 
opening from which the volcano erupts — had formed near Mujoga.

Rebecca Tan contributed to this report.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/22/congo-volcano-
eruption-nyiragongo/

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On Sun, 23 May 2021 15:15:27 +0200 (CEST), "Baaboons"
<biden-voters@cnn.coma> wrote:

>A volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted Saturday, 
>turning the sky above a fearsome red and causing evacuation 
>plans to be activated in a major city devastated by Mount 
>Nyiragongo’s last activity.
>

Releasing vast amounts of CO2 into the air. Ban volcanoes!




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#24 — Re: Democratic Republic of Congo volcano erupts for first time in yea rs, sending people fleeing from major city

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 On 2021-May-24 13:04 PM,
slate_leeper wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2021 15:15:27 +0200 (CEST), "Baaboons" <biden-voters@cnn.coma> 
> wrote:
>
>> A volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted Saturday, turning the 
>> sky above a fearsome red and causing evacuation plans to be activated in a
>> major city devastated by Mount Nyiragongo’s last activity. 
>
> Releasing vast amounts of CO2 into the air. Ban volcanoes!

Are you going to hire some men to build you some man-made volcanoes in 
protest?

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