Mt Nyiragongo erupted on Saturday turning the night sky red and sending a wall of orange lava downhill towards the lakeside city of about 2 million people.

Twice in recent years Nyiragongo's eruptions have sent molten rock flowing toward the city. In 1977 lava raced down the mountain at more than 60 miles an hour, the fastest ever observed.

Lava flows come in a great variety of shapes and sizes. Nyiragongo is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because of its particularly fast-moving lava, which can flow more ...

Residents pick up remains of their destroyed homes from the smouldering lava deposited by the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 23 ...

Among the main natural attractions are Virunga National Park, home to mountain gorillas and the Nyiragongo volcano; Salonga National Park, the largest tropical rainforest reserve in Africa ...

Among the most active and deadly of these volcanoes is Nyiragongo, a so-called stratovolcano located just north of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this interactive ...