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.
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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 »
Descendants of victims of the Lake Nyos poisonous gas explosion.
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Cameroon:
Scepticism Over Plans for Lake Gas Survivors
UNIRIN, 10 July 2013
Plans by the Cameroonian authorities to move thousands of survivors of the 1986 Lake Nyos gas explosion back to their original homeland have provoked opposition, with concerns over… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Victims of Lake Nyos To Return Soon
Cameroon Tribune, 5 June 2013
Government's commitment to speed up the resettlement of the victims of Lake Nyos has been re-echoed by North West governor, Adolphe Lele Lafrique. It emerged from the Bamenda… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Lake Nyos Stable, Monoun Under Surveillance!
Cameroon Tribune, 20 March 2013
Stakeholders of a Cameroon-Japan funded research project on disaster management met in Yaounde on Wednesrday. Read more »
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Cameroon:
Nyos Survivors - Government Provides Fees, Uniforms and Food
Cameroon Tribune, 5 February 2013
Twenty six years after the killer lake Nyos disaster, survivors are still in dire need, impatiently waiting for the degassing process end so as to retire to the land of their… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Japan Supports Cameroon in Lake Nyos Disaster Prevention
Cameroon Tribune, 9 August 2012
Within the project for the supply of magnetic fluid for Lake Nyos and Monoun and the limitation of natural catastrophes in Cameroon, an accord was signed between the government of… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Lakes Nyos, Monoun - Experts Brainstorm on Mitigating Natural Disasters
Cameroon Tribune, 20 March 2012
The first joint coordinating session of the SATREPS project held in Yaounde Monday March 19, 2012. Read more »
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Cameroon:
Undp Helping Community to Return Home After Lake Explosion
UNDP, 12 April 2011
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and partners are working to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of thousands of people, by ensuring the stability of Lake Nyos,… Read more »