Article: CAMEROON: FEARS FOR FOREST AS DAM CONSTRUCTION BEGINS

Ngala Killian Chimtom
Inter Press Service English News Wire
08-04-2009
LOM-PANGAR, Cameroon, Aug. 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Crouched on a low
wooden stool in front of his mud hut in the village of Pangar,
Alain Selembe puffs away at his clay pipe, his gaze lost in the
surrounding forest, quite oblivious to the noise made by his two
playing daughters. All he hears is the rumbling of bulldozers
opening up a 30 kilometre road from Deng Deng village to the
confluence of the Lom and Pangar rivers, where the government plans
to construct a new dam.
"This is bad news for us," Selembe tells IPS."The construction
of a dam here means that we will lose our homes, our land, and our
property."
Several kilometers ...

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