UN urges Congolese refugees to stay in camps

UN officials hoped today that more Congolese refugees would report to tented camps, after thousands ignored their plea and returned to a city devastated by a volcanic eruption.

Residents of Goma, who fled to neighbouring Rwanda when three lava flows destroyed 40% of the town, packed the few possessions they had brought with them and set off on foot, dodging rivers of molten rock, or climbing over the brittle crust that formed over the lava flows.