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, ...

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has issued a stern warning against the encroachment of Lake Kivu’s protected buffer zone, following recent cases of businesses illegally extending ...

Why it's incredible: The lake contains huge amounts of explosive carbon dioxide and methane. Lake Kivu is a giant body of water that is so saturated with carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane at its depths ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 clear ...

Two babies have been found alive on the shores of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Lake Kivu, days after floods and landslides killed more than 400 people in two villages in the country's South Kivu ...

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, located between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been declared “Living Lakes Lake of the Year 2025” by the international Living Lakes Network and the Global Nature Fund (GNF ...