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...peacekeepers. Pictures of the soldiers with refugees were captioned GUARDIANS OF THE LOCAL POPULACE and DO NOT WORRY, WE ARE THERE. In pride of place was a display of pictures and letters detailing how the Indians extracted the body of a Chinese climber from the crater of the nearby Nyiragongo volcano. Above these was a proud banner reading BEYOND MANDATE. Retrieving a dead Chinese tourist from an uninhabited, uncontested mountain may be noble work. But the responsibility to protect was supposed to be about more than that...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The Wrath of Mount Nyiragongo Lava poured down the slopes of Mount Nyiragongo and through the eastern Congolese city of Goma, destroying everything in its path and sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing for their lives. U.N. officials put the death toll at about 50, as displaced people lined roads into Rwanda and gathered in the town of Gisenyi. As the 3,469-m volcano continued to spew molten rock, earthquakes shook the area and a cloud of smoke hung in the air. The lava flow ended in Lake Kivu, on the border...
...DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Still Not Safe Aid agencies began distributing food in the stricken city of Goma after residents returned to the area despite threats of a second volcanic eruption. Molten lava from the Nyiragongo volcano claimed at least 100 lives, including 50 killed in an explosion at a petrol station, and destroyed more than 1,500 homes. The U.N. says half a million people will need ongoing humanitarian assistance or relocation...
...largest of three border camps around Goma, Zaire. Relief workers say brawls over food and supplies are growing more common, and they fear the unrest could spread out of control unless supplies of flour, corn and other grains increase. Visible about 3,000 ft. above them, Rwanda's Nyiragongo volcano erupted, spewing ash and dust but no lava on the preoccupied refugees. U.N. officials, meanwhile, launched a new campaign to draw them back home but reported no results...
BISHOP ALOYSIUS BIGIRUMWANI, Apostolic Vicar of Ruanda Urundi (bordering on the Belgian Congo), is a descendant of the kings of the famed Watutsi tribe of giants. From a mountaintop mission at Nyundo, overlooking Lake Kivu and the flaring volcanoes of Nyiragongo and Nya-mulagira. tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Bishop Bigi-rumwani, 53, directs five white bishops and 471 priests, both white and Negro. Since his consecration in 1952, 20,000 converts have joined the church in his own diocese, but two-thirds of the half-million tribesmen in the territory he administers as senior bishop are still pagan...
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