GOMA — DR Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo has ceased to rumble and Goma, the city that lives in its shadow, is in recovery mode.
But hundreds of parents are still frantically searching for children who became separated from them during the panicky flight to safer ground.
In Ndosho, one of Goma’s poorer districts, relief that the threat from Nyiragongo appears to have receded is palpable. Songs and shouts echo among the wooden houses.
But in other households, there is despair.
Many parents and children became separated when Goma was ordered to be evacuated on May 27, five days after Africa’s most active volcano roared back to life.
About 400,000 residents …
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