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Abdou Nkanjouena

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Abdou Nkanjouena appears in a single Nexor dispatch dated April 17, 2026, covering the Lake Nyos disaster and the broader threat of limnic eruptions in Central Africa. According to the broadcast, Nkanjouena was cycling to work before dawn on August 15, 1984, when he encountered the bodies of Father Louis Kouam and others in the aftermath of the Lake Monoun limnic eruption. The dispatch presents him as an early witness to the event's human toll, his routine journey placing him among the first to encounter evidence of what the gas release had done overnight.

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How Lake Nyos Killed 1,746 People in One Breath — and Why Lake Kivu Could Do It at 250 Times the Scale
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2026-04-17

How Lake Nyos Killed 1,746 People in One Breath — and Why Lake Kivu Could Do It at 250 Times the Scale

On the night of August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon released an estimated 1.2 cubic kilometers of dissolved carbon dioxide in approximately 20 seconds, suffocating 1,746 people in the surrounding villages. The phenomenon — a limnic eruption — was unknown to science until 1984. A degassing solution existed within years, but took 15 years to fund. Lake Kivu, 55 miles long and holding 250 times the CO2 of Nyos, remains only partially addressed.

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