goma
goh muh
- n a city in eastern Congo at the northern end of Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda
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- Congo Conflict Masks Deadly Volcano Threat
By Jonny Hogg KINSHASA (Reuters) - Eleven years after an eruption of Mount Nyiragongo devastated the sprawling lakeside city of Goma, killing hundreds of people, eastern Congo's armed conflict is preventing scientists from predicting the volcano's next deadly explosion. With its plume of ash and steam reaching high into the sky, the brooding Nyiragongo is one of the world's most active volcanoes ...
June 6, 2013 - Scientific American
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- Louis Michel in Swissinfo
MONUC will use all available means to protect urban centres including Rutshuru, Sake (to the west of Goma), and Goma,said Michel Bonnardeaux, spokesman for the UN's biggest peace force, with 17,000 personnel based mainly in the east of Congo. - Bernard Kouchner in Deutsche Welle
We will try in Kinshasa, in Goma and in Kigali to renew contacts, which have never been completely severed, and to establish first perhaps a calming down, which then could lead us towards peace negotiations,Kouchner told Europe 1 radio before... - Olusegun Obasanjo in Sydney Morning Herald
I go to Goma, and from Goma, we will be seeing Nkunda. He was kind enough to ring me three days ago and speak to me while I was in Nigeria. He explained that he is full of expectations for us to meet and talk face to face,the former Nigerian...