Lake Kivu is set to receive dedicated water transport routes to enhance navigability and ensure the safety of passengers and goods, The New Times has learned. Located in Rwanda’s Western Province, ...

Thousands have fled the city of Goma after Mount Nyiragongo erupted and hundreds of earthquakes followed. Residents describe chaotic scenes and packed roads. Officials say more eruptions, earthquakes ...

Thousands of years of volcanic activity has caused a massive accumulation of methane and carbon dioxide to dissolve in the depths of Lake Kivu, enough to prove monumentally destructive if released.

D ozens of people were missing after a boat sank on Lake Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, government officials and a civil society leader said on Tuesday. GOMA, Democratic ...

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. According to Jean-Jacques Purusi, ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The majority of the 50 passengers aboard a wooden boat that capsized on a lake in eastern Congo are presumed to be dead, a local official said. The boat crossing Lake Kivu was ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 2 (January 10, 2017), pp. 251-256 (6 pages) The sediment record of Lake Kivu reveals a complex ...

Lake Kivu is one of the Great Lakes of Africa. It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, at the altitude of 1,463 m, and is in the Albertine (western) Rift, a part ...