Lake Nyos at 40:Remembering The Night the lake turned deadly

Lake Nyos at 40: Remembering the night the lake turned deadly By Nelly Nkanjoh, UB journalism student on internship Forty years after a silent cloud swept through the villages of Nyos, Subum, Kam and Cha, the Lake Nyos disaster remains one of the most haunting natural tragedies in Cameroon's history. On August 21, 1986, residents went about their evening routines unaware of the danger building beneath the calm surface of Lake Nyos, a volcanic crater lake in the North West Region. By the following morning, an estimated 1,746 people and thousands of livestock were dead. There was no explosion, no…