One month after the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano in Goma, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the starvation of the city is on the agenda. For specialists, this will prevent a disaster.
In May, the urgency of the residents to evacuate Goma caused major traffic jams in the direction of the town of Sake. This is the only road that goes from Goma to go south. For Corneille Kanene, a lecturer at the Higher Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of Kinshasa (ISAU), it is imperative to densify this city with more than 600,000 inhabitants to avoid a catastrophe. .
Create satellite cities
He wakes up, at the microphone of our correspondent in Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda, the creation of cities around Goma in order to meet the city’s surplus population: “We need to think about building satellite cities that are not dormitories, satellite cities within a radius of 40 kilometers. These are not new cities for us. The word “city”, we do not want to approach it in these terms, because there are many legal consequences. We believe that satellite cities are well-equipped cities, not just for living. These are not dormitories, but they are cities equipped with all the community infrastructure and everything you need. And for these satellite cities to be viable, the mobility between the satellite cities and Goma, as a mother city, must be well secured. ”
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