Goma airport reopens two weeks after volcanic eruption
About 400,000 residents out of an estimated 600,000 left the North Kivu provincial capital after a brief one-day eruption of Nyiragongo, a strato-volcano nearly 3,500 metres (11,500 feet) high that straddles the East African Rift tectonic divide.
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This aerial photo shows the crater of the active Nyamuragira volcano in the foreground and the Nyiragongo volcano in the background, north of Goma. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP)
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The international airport in DR Congo's eastern city of Goma reopened Saturday, two weeks after a deadly eruption of a nearby volcano, when the prime minister arrived to take stock
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