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On Sunday, rebel forces and government troops were still squared off, just a few miles apart, down the road from Goma.

His advisers say they hope for a rapid improvement in security in and around the Congolese town of Goma, near Rwanda's border.

Save the Children emergency officer George Graham spoke to VOA from Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in Eastern DRC.

His corrugated iron house had no number and his volcanic ash street in the heart of Goma had no name.

The aid agency CARE has also said that up to one-fifth of displaced families around Goma are headed by single mothers.

Their hospital at Goma had been set up in 2000 to train young Congolese doctors.

A plane has crashed in Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least five passengers, officials say.

According to Tedesco, there is no question the volcano will erupt again, potentially transforming Goma into a modern Pompeii.

If Goma were to fall, the whole UN mission in eastern Congo would be put into question.

The city of Goma is caught in the middle of the instability, but young people here are making a positive change in their community.

WHO has already provided emergency medical supplies from its stocks to NGOs operating in Goma, the main city in eastern DRC.

Mr Nkunda has so far failed to launch his widely expected attack on Goma.

We have to deny access to any armed groups into Goma. That's very clear.

They have given little reason for hope, so far preferring to shoot up brothels and loot rather than protect the displaced in Goma.

The survey was conducted by four British aid agencies who went into the camps around Goma.

She describes what happened in a string of villages along the rudimentary road south from Goma towards Bukavu, 120 kilometres away.

Magma churns and gushes in the lava lake of Mount Nyiragongo, one of Africa's most active volcanos, in Goma, Congo.

These people are staying in small camps, also in churches, in schools and with host families in Goma.

The dusty streets of Goma, North Kivu's capital and a mining hub, illustrate Congo's ills.

Doctors are struggling to contain the outbreak in a sprawling refugee camp near Congo's eastern capital of Goma.

The risk, it turns out, is not just near the city of Goma, but directly beneath it.

The United Nations has announced that it is withdrawing all non-essential staff from Goma.

He says many of the refugees have since returned to Goma to check on their properties and families left behind.

Doctors are struggling to contain the outbreak as sprawling refugee camp near Congo's eastern capital of Goma.

Next to GOMA, the new State Library is worth a visit as well.

Nadine Kanyere found her youngest son Ushindi in Goma two weeks ago after they were separated in an attack.

Last week, Nkunda's forces pulled back from front lines near the town of Kanyabayonga, north of Goma.

A regional map at the UN compound in Goma shows insurgencies within insurgencies.

The Goma . The head of UN peacekeeping had has dismissed the reports.

A Congolese man transports a red couch on a wooden scooter near Goma in eastern Congo.

Nyiragongo erupted again in 2002, sending flows toward the city of Goma and the shores of Lake Kivu.

'Goma, ' he told National Geographic magazine, 'is the most dangerous city in the world. '

Direct from the forest, charcoal sells for $17 a bag at a lively market near Goma.

Cell phones have helped transform Goma in other ways.

Goma - he could run it round Ronaldo! .

In April, a Congolese aircraft crashed near Goma killing nearly 50 people and injuring more than 100.

It is the heaviest fighting in eastern Congo since Goma faced a similar rebel offensive in 2008.

A Zairian Tutsi rebel child soldier takes up a hidden position in foliage on Nov. 28, 1996, near Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In the past year Goma has suffered a miserable decline.

The pair, each two and a half years old, moved there last December from a makeshift shelter in the city of Goma.