In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after a first eruption on Saturday, the risk of a new disaster worries local authorities, who issued an evacuation order on Thursday.
Since then, tens of thousands of people have fled the city of Goma, in the east of the country.
TESTIMONY
The fear of another catastrophe is currently causing a mass exodus.
On Thursday, the authorities in Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of
Congo
(DRC), ordered the evacuation of part of the city because of the risk of eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano.
The latter had already erupted on Saturday evening.
Since then, tens of thousands of people have fled the city, both by car and on foot.
And on the roads, the inhabitants, who leave everything behind, are in complete uncertainty.
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"I left everything behind me ... My house, my clothes, my documents. I do not know when I am going to return to recover them", testifies on Europe 1 the photographer Guerchom Ndebo.
And to describe the confusion reigning on the roads leaving Goma, with "families who separated along the way, children who got lost".
"We don't know how we're going to sleep"
"The general feeling is uncertainty", sums up the photographer.
"We don't know how we're going to sleep, we don't know what we're going to eat, we don't know what's going to happen in Goma, and when we're going to go back."
Goma has more than 600,000 inhabitants, for an agglomeration of two million people. To date, on site, the death toll since the eruption is 32. On January 17, 2002, the previous major eruption of Nyiragongo killed around 100 people.