Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE YAOUNDE, 10 July 2013 (IRIN) - 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 environmental safety and potential land disputes. Some 12,000 people now live in camps in the Menchum area in Northwest Region following the August 1986 disaster in which carbon dioxide spewed out of the nearby volcanic lake, engulfing villages and killing hundreds of people. Adolphe Lele Lafrique, head of the Lake Nyos Disaster Management Committee and the governor of Northwest Region, announced in June that survivors would be relocated to...
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