AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoForest Governance & Deforestation: A Yaounde workshop by Green Development Advocates (GDA) is pushing regional cooperation to curb forest conversion across the Congo Basin, spotlighting deforestation pressures on biodiversity and endemic species. Protected Areas & Land Rights: As Cameroon celebrates WAFCON, communities renew calls to secure Banen customary land rights in Ebo Forest, warning that unresolved tenure and industrial logging concessions threaten their ancestral territory. Natural Disaster Lessons: Fresh reporting revisits the 1986 Lake Nyos tragedy, explaining how CO₂ buildup in the crater lake led to a deadly gas release—an urgent reminder for risk awareness around Cameroon’s volcanic lakes. Mining Safety & Environmental Risk: Sonamines opens direct talks after failed tenders for Lomié-Nkamouna and Akonolinga projects, while a wider region faces deadly gold-mining collapses near the Cameroon border, raising alarms on unsafe, illegal extraction. Digital Public Infrastructure: Cameroon Internet Governance Forum 2026 urges a national interoperability infrastructure so digital government doesn’t stay fragmented, linking it to the push for a functional digital ID ecosystem. Waste-to-Soil Solutions: In Donga-Mantung, farmers are turning household organic waste into compost and bio-fertilisers to restore degraded soils, cut chemical dependence, and protect water sources.
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