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Promises to Cameroon Victims 'Hot Air'

For almost three decades, the victims of Lake Nyos gas explosion in northern Cameroon and their descendants have been living in mud huts in camps that lack basic health, education and other facilities, while the government has repeatedly promised to relocate them.

  • Cameroon:   Promises to Gas Victims Only 'Hot Air'

    IPS, 17 July 2013

    Ismaela Muhamadu was six years old when he lost his parents and siblings in a poisonous gas explosion at northern Cameroon's Lake Nyos. The blast killed more than 1,800 people, and… Read more »

Monde Kingsley Nfor/IPS

Descendants of victims of the Lake Nyos poisonous gas explosion.

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