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This African city has endured war and Ebola. Now comes coronavirus
Baggage porter Cacuru Emmanuel at the Congolese border with Rwanda. (Peter Yeung / For The Times)By PETER YEUNGAPRIL 1, 20203:08 PMGOMA, Congo — In 1994, when Cacuru Emmanuel was 12, 850,000 people fleeing neighboring Rwanda poured into his hometown of Goma. Eight years later, the Nyiragongo volcano spat out a 1 ½-mile-wide river of lava that destroyed his…
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Three Command Papers on the treatment of natives in the Congo. Cd. 1933. Correspondence and Report from His Majesty’s Consul at Boma respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo. Africa. No. 1 (1904) Cd. 2097. Further Correspondence respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo. Africa. No. 7 (1904) Cd.…
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