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A geologist and disaster management expert identifies several key steps that policymakers must take to prevent another tragic ‘exploding crater lake’ disaster from happening in Cameroon.
Cameroon has many potentially dangerous lakes, which contain gas. Yet the authorities have done very little to mitigate the resulting risks.
The recent change of color and smell in north-west Cameroon's Lake Kuk worry the local residents of possible disaster that may resurface 36 years ago.
Read more about Cameroon’s ‘exploding lakes’: disaster expert warns deadly gas release could cause another tragedy on Devdiscourse
LONDON, Sept 12: A sudden change on August 29, 2022 in the colour and smell of Lake Kuk, in north-west Cameroon, has caused anxiety and panic among the local residents. Fears are driven by an incident that happened 36 years ago at Lake Nyos, just 10km away. On 21 August 1986, Lake Nyos emitted lethal gases (mainly carbon dioxide) that suffocated 1,746 people and around 8,300 livestock. It wasn’t the first incident like this. Two years earlier, Lake Monoum, about […]