The United Nations and the Rwandan government today urged refugees from the volcano in eastern Congo to gather in approved camps, where aid agencies could deliver food, water and shelter - but most Congolese just want to go home.

Fresh earthquake tremors are shaking the region in central Africa already devastated by a volcano eruption.

Desperate appeals for aid are being made as hundreds of thousands of people flee in terror of the erupting volcano on the Rwandan-Congolese border.