Cyuve camp, Rwanda, for refugees from the Nyriragongo volcano eruption on 18th Jan 2002 in nearby Goma in the DRC. Here a mother cooks some sweet corn while in the background refugees build temporary shelters.


Cyuve camp, Rwanda, for refugees from the Nyriragongo volcano eruption on 18th Jan 2002 in nearby Goma in the DRC. When the Nyriragongo volcano erupted lava flowed into Goma in the DRC, destroying one third of the town and killing 45 people.


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