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The world often seems inured to suffering in obscure places. But in 1986 a freakish act of nature deep in Cameroon put the impoverished West African nation on the front pages, and into the record ...

A seemingly ordinary day for Doctor Emmanuel Ngum Mbi turned into one of the most haunting moments in Cameroon’s history. While cycling back to his home in Sabum village, he noticed something odd - a ...

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 Japan and that of ...

In August 1986 Lake Nyos in northwest Cameroon suddenly released a massive cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating more than ...

LAKE NYOS, Cameroon — It began quietly, with a white mist that bubbled out of this crater lake deep in Cameroon’s mountainous interior. The mist formed into a cloud, dropped over a cliff and poured ...

Over a million Nigerians are likely to die if the Nyos Dam in Cameroon should collapse the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has warned. The agency made this known at the presentation of a ...

Researchers involved in a unusual project to prevent natural disasters in two African lakes say the first few years of the attempt have gone well, but have not yet made things safe. The project aims ...

August 21, 1986, was a busy market day in the village of Lower Nyos and that evening most people went to bed early. The next morning, some 1,700 people and 3,000 domestic animals were discovered lying ...