Cameroon Echoes {Echos Camerounais}

Lake Nyos : Two Years for Survivors to Return to Ancestral Land

 

Visiting MINATD took message of hope and encouragement to survivors in Wum, Kumfutu and Nyos. 

«Disasters are a combination of accidents and vulnerabilities and we will accelerate degassing work while strengthening the lake Nyos dam in 2010. We are working within the limits of human nature and hopeful that 2010 prevention activities will progress to make the lake area safe and secure for habitation so that survivors can return to their ancestral land in about two years”. That was the message that the visiting Minister of State in charge of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Marafa Hamidou Yaya took to the population of the disaster area on March 22,2010. In effect, 24 years after the killer lake took the lives of 1.800 people the 3rd pilot Steering Committee of the lake Nyos programme emerged with decisions that comfort and reassure survivors. 

Yaounde - Ensuring Sustainable Management of Floods

Management of the River Mfoundi floods will benefit form the experience of the Rhone in Lyon, France.

Floods are a common phenomenon in most big towns and cities in Cameroon. Managing this natural disaster was the major preoccupation during a conference dubbed "Mecredis des Grandes Conferences" in the campus of the university of Yaounde 1 last Wednesday. The theme of the conference was "Management of floods in urban areas: From Rhone in Lyon to Mfoundi in Yaounde; what lasting solutions?".

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