GOMA, Congo (AP) — At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat with 278 passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, a local governor said.

GOMA, Congo — A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, witnesses told The Associated Press. It was not immediately ...

Congolese authorities have launched investigations into two recent deadly boat accidents, including the capsizing of an overcrowded boat on Lake Kivu on Thursday which killed at least 78 people.

M23 has taken control of both provincial capitals on the lake — Bukavu on the southern side fell on Sunday weeks after the fighters captured the city of Goma in the north — giving them total ...

In 1986, a similar eruption at Lake Nyos, in Cameroon, killed more than 1,700 people in a matter of minutes. Additional eruptions are possible in Goma and in Lake Kivu, with little warning, Ndima ...

Fetching water at Lake Kivu. Goma, a city of 2 million, has virtually no running water — not even in the fanciest hotels, which have their own pumps and treat their own water.

On May 27th the acting governor of North Kivu, the province that includes Goma, ordered the immediate evacuation of about 600,000 residents in the centre of the city (perhaps another 1.5m live in ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo Jan 6 (Reuters) - At least two children and one woman have drowned after a passenger boat sank on Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local ...

“It is peaceful here, unlike over there,” said Exauce Shalako, a 20-year-old man from Goma who was lounging on the shore of Lake Kivu in Rwanda one afternoon this month.

GOMA, Congo — A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, witnesses told The Associated Press.

Goma, Congo — A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, witnesses told The Associated Press.. It was not immediately ...