Publications

Papers
Hardy Medry Dieu-Veill Nkodia, Timothée Miyouna, Folarin Kolawole, Florent Boudzoumou, Alan Patrick Rodeck Loemba, Nicy Carmel Bazebizonza Tchiguina, Damien Delvaux. Seismogenic Fault Reactivation in Western Central Africa: Insight From Regional Stress Analysis. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems research article, 2022.
Poster
Pascale LAHOGUE, Imen ARFAOUI, Nicy BAZEBIZONZA, Prefina SAMBA, Hardy NKODIA, Nadège NGALA NTAMBWE, Junior LUTETE, Florent BOUDZOUMOU, Damien DELVAUX. Field mission of the karst area in Congo Brazzaville 2022. Scientific Speleology days, 19th to 20th November 2022, Han-Sur-Lesse, Belgium.
Damien Delvaux, Pascale Lahogue, Imen Arfaoui, Thierry de Putter, Hardy Nkodia, Florent Boudzoumou, Elvis I. Kongota, Gloire Ganza. Tectonic control of the geomorphology in West-Congo: implications for the Lower Congo River development. Science days 2022, 19th to 18th October 2022, Royal Museum of central Africa.
Pascale LAHOGUE, Imen ARFAOUI, Damien DELVAUX, Nicy BAZEBIZONZA, Nadège NGALA, Junior LUTETE, Prefina SAMBA, Ange THIJENIRA, Hardy NKODIA, Florent BOUDZOUMOU, Roland KAKULE. Karst systems studies in central Kongo (DRC) and Niari-Bouenza (RC). Science days 2022, 17th to 18th October 2022, Royal Museum of central Africa.
Anouk Borst, Thierry de Putter, Pascale Lahogue, Max Fernandez-Alonso, Damien Delvaux, Daniel Baudet, Gerard Nimpagaritse, Fortune Tolumba, Florias Mees, Stijn Dewaele, Jolan Acke, Christian Kalikone, Lee Fred Kezimana, Ghislain Furaha, Alain Ntenge, Evelyne Safari Nakito, Nathanael Toussaint. Critical Mineral Resources in Central Africa: Geology and Extraction. Science days 2022, 19th to 18th October 2022, Royal Museum of central Africa.
Pascale Lahogue, Jean-Marc Herpers, Franck Theeten, Didier Van den Spiegel, Max Fernandez-Alonso. GeoDaRWIN, an Open-Source Geological Data Management Tool. Science days 2022, 19th to 18th October 2022, Royal Museum of central Africa.
Imen ARFAOUI, Nicy BAZEBIZONZA, Ange THIJENIRA, Nadège NGALA, Junior LUTETE, Prefina SAMBA, Hardy NKODIA, Florent BOUDZOUMOU, Roland KAKULE, Damien DELVAUX, Pascale LAHOGUE. New inventoried Karst systems in Central Africa and preliminary paleoclimate proxy analysis applied speleothems from Central Africa. "Climate Change, The Karst Record IX (KR9)" 17th to 20th July 2022, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Conferences
CAG30 - 2025 Anouk Borst, Evelyne Safari, Damien Delvaux de Fenffe, Louis Nahimana, Fernando Prado Araujo, Camille François (2025) Flake Graphite Occurrences on Idjwi Island in Lake Kivu, DRC: Origin and Economic Potential in the Mesoproterozoic Karagwe-Ankole Belt, 30th Colloquium of African Geology, ID 10_023, Nairobi
Anouk Borst, Sebastian Rodriguez Ardila, Fedoua Merebbah, Camille François, Stijn Dewaele, (2025) Incremental emplacement and complex metasomatic overprinting of the giant Manono-Kitotolo spodumene pegmatites, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 30th Colloquium of African Geology, ID 10_027, Nairobi
Aimée Love Pay, Camille François, Damien Delvaux, Marc Poujol, Hardy Nkodia, Daniel Baudet, Valentin Kanda, Nicole Kitambala, Luc Tack (2025) Petrological and Geochronological Study of the Paleoproterozoic Kimeza Supergroup in the Matadi Region (Kongo Central, D.R. Congo), 30th Colloquium of African Geology, ID 09_023, Nairobi
Camille François, Damien Delvaux, Anouk Borst, Marc Poujol, Marie Catherine Sforna, Francesca Cecchet, Augustin Dekoninck, Omar Boudouma, Hardy Nkodia, Aimée Love Pay, Nicole Yaya Kitambala & Luc Tack (2025) Late Panafrican Metamorphic Evolution Of Garnet-Bearing Graphitic Micaschists In The West Congo Belt (Boma Region, Kongo Central, Democratic Republic Of Congo), 30th Colloquium of African Geology, ID 09_004, Nairobi
Damien Delvaux, Christian Kalikone, Evelyne Safari, Toussaint Mushamalirwa, Anouk Borst, Camille François, Louis Nahimana, Michel Villeneuve (2025) Stratigraphic correlation between Supergroups of the Mesoproterozoic Karagwe-Ankole Belt across the Kivu rift. A review and new data from the Nya-Ngezie, Kalehe and Idjwi sectors in eastern DRC, 30th Colloquium of African Geology, ID 01_034, Nairobi
Pascale Lahogue, Nicy Bazebizona, Nadège Ngala, Jemima Bounkouda, Prefina Samba, Jeaney Lusongo, Hardy Nkodia, Ange Thijenira, Junior Lutete, Bernard Libs, Michael Laumanns, Jean-Philippe Dégletagne, Guiseppe Spitaleri, Imen Arfaoui, Josiane Libs, Damien Delvaux, Florent Boudzoumu (2025) Study of four remarkable karsts in the DRC and the Republic of Congo: towards a potential transboundary UNESCO Global Geopark in Central Africa? 30th Colloquium of African Geology, ID 06_027, Nairobi
Nicy Bazebizona, Damien Delvaux, Hardy Nkodia, Prefina Samba, Florent Boudzoumu, Imen Arfaoui, Pascale Lahogue (2025) Transpressive strike-slip faulting and cave development in the West Congo Supergroup: Insights from the Mbelo caves in the Madingou region, Republic of Congo, 30th Colloquium of African Geology, ID 09_033, Nairobi
EGU - 2025
Samba, P., Bazebizonza, N., Nkodia, H., Boudzoumou, F., Arfaoui, I., & Lahogue, P., 2025. Chemical Signature and structural study of a Madingou hydrokarst system, southwest of the Republic of Congo (No. EGU25-716). EGU General Assembly, Vienna.
Geologica Belgica - 2024
Arfaoui, I., Verheyden, S., Bazebizonza, N., Ngala, N., Boudzoumou, F., Kakule, R., Degletagne, J-Ph., Cheng, H. & Lahogue, P. 2024. ‘Biocorrosion features and their potential impact on stalagmite U/Th dating within the karst system of the Kongo-Central region’. Géologie et ressources naturelles en Afrique centrale, impact sociétal et développement durable. Book of abstracts, vol. 5. Brussels : Geologica Belgica, 5. ISBN: 978-2-9601402-4-8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20341/gbcp.vol2.
2022
Borst, A.M., Acke, J., van der Does, L, Goodship, A., Kwizera, D. (2022) 3Ts and Li-batteries: Regional zonation and Li potential of rare metal pegmatites in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa, Goldschmidt Conference Hawaii 2022.
Nkodia, H.M.D.V, Delvaux, D., Boudzoumou, F., Miyouna, T. (2021). Paleostress reconstruction of brittle deformation in the foreland part of the West Congo Belt, Republic of Congo and Republic Democratic of Congo. VIRTUAL AGM 2021 Tectonic Studies Group, UK.
Nkodia, H.M.D.V, Miyouna, T., Boudzoumou, F., Delvaux, D., (2021). Integration of flower structures in strike-slip fault damage zones classification – examples from the West-Congo belt and foreland. EGU General Assembly 26–30 April 2021, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 23, EGU21-7016. Session TS12.2 – Three-dimensional characteristics of geological structures. Virtual PICO presentation.
Nkodia, H.M.D.V, Miyouna, T., Boudzoumou, F.,Ibarra-Gnianga, A., Delvaux, D., (2021).A progressive episode of deformation in the foreland of the West-Congo Belt: From folding to brittle shearing, in Republic of Congo. EGU General Assembly 26–30 April 2021, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 23, EGU21-10949. Session TS7.1: Dynamics and structural evolution of fold-and-thrust belts: From nature to models across spatial and temporal scales. Virtual PICO presentation.
C. KALIKONE, G. FURAHA, L. KEZIMANA, C. NZOLANG, G. NIMPAGARITSE, D. DELVAUX, J. BATUMIKE, R. RUMANYA, E. MUNYALI, H. FAKAGE, D. BAUDET, L. NAHIMANA, S. DEWAELE (2021) Tentative de décomplexification du complexe de Butare: ses extrémités NW et SE respectivement à Kalehe et Idjwi à l'Est de la RDC et à Zina-Randa et Cohoha au Nord du Burundi, Geologica Belgica Meeting 2021, September 15-18, Tervuren, Belgium – Abstract Book, p. 52.
Lee Fred KEZIMANA1, Louis NAHIMANA2, Gérard NIMPAGARITSE, (2021) Tentative de décomplexification du complexe de Zina-Randa (Nord-Ouest du Burundi), Geologica Belgica Meeting 2021, September 15-18, Tervuren, Belgium – Abstract Book, p. 56.
Furaha, G., Nahimana, L., Nimpagaritse, G., Delvaux, D., Dewaele, S., Lacroiix, B.J., Lahondes, D., 2020. First attempt on the structural and lithostratigraphic control of Sn-Nb-Ta-W and Au mineralization in the Karagwe-Ankole belt (NE Burundi, East Africa). GSA 2020 Connects Online, Paper 25-10, 10.1130/abs/2020AM-359202.
Nkodia, H.M.D.V., Miyouna, T., Delvaux, D., Boudzoumou, F., 2020. Flower structures in sandstones of the Paleozoic Inkisi Group (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo): evidence for two major strike-slip fault systems and geodynamic implications. South African Journal of Geology 123(4), 531-550. doi: 10.25131/sajg.123.0038.