Two pipes to suck out lethal gas accumulations have been erected at Lake Nyos, as part of measures to pre-empt the 1986 gas disaster that killed more than 1.700 people and thousands of life stuck, the Institute of Geologic and Mining Research said on Tuesday, 22 March.  French company Data Environnement constructed the pipes, said the Institute of Geological Research. Lake Chad is one of two lakes where the rare release of toxic gas has been reported in Cameroon.

Around a hundred elephants have been raiding villages in the Far North region for the past three months, forcing some residents to flee, according to the state newspaper Cameroon Tribune.  The elephants, from the Waza National Park, are camped in the Kalfou reserve and come out form time to time to raze homes, farmlands and anything in their path in the villages of Zanyao and Kaourouss. On several occasions elephants were spotted in the centre of the town of Yangua, not far from the regional capital, Cameroon Tribune reported. Waza is home for lions and elephants and in particular for one of the last populations of the Kordofan Giraffe.