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Home»Environment/Climate Change»Cameroon could face worsening urban flooding, droughts
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Cameroon could face worsening urban flooding, droughts

Abdallah el-KurebeBy Abdallah el-KurebeJune 1, 2018No Comments4 Mins Read
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Environmental groups on Friday warned that Cameroon could face worsening urban flooding and droughts, due to the cutting of thousands of hectares of forest to build stadiums, hotels, roads and housing to host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.

Environment experts, criticised the decision to build on forested areas, saying urban trees must be protected if the country is to avoid worsening impacts of climate change, including flooding and droughts.

“Forests are very important in regulating city climate, thus their loss or degradation is a major source of emissions of carbon dioxide, which contributes to climate change and is a big threat to the livelihood of the population,” said Samuel Nguifo, executive director of the Centre for Environment and Development, a Yaounde environmental non-profit.

He said forests act as “air conditioners” for cities, cooling residents suffering increasingly hot weather.

Cameroon has in recent years seen large areas of forest cut for mining projects, new ports, hydroelectric dams and other projects under the country’s Vision 2035 project.

That economic development plan aims to slash widespread unemployment and cut Cameroon’s poverty rate from 40 percent in 2007 to less than 20 percent by 2035.

Between 2001 and 2016, Cameroon lost nearly 900,000 hectares of trees – a 2.8 percent reduction in the country’s forests, according to 2017 data from Global Forest Watch, a forest monitoring initiative.

More than half of all the tree losses were in the Centre, South, East and Littoral regions where most new investment projects are concentrated, the data showed.

Adding football infrastructure has now made the pressure on Cameroon’s existing “deforestation hotspots” worse, forest experts said.

“These new sports infrastructure projects will only increase the susceptibility of these cities to the effects of climate change,” said Julius Tieguhong, a forest researcher with the African Forest Forum.

Tieguhong said the cities of Douala, Yaounde and Limbe have in recent years faced worsening water shortages, floods and rising temperatures – all problems likely to become worse as forest is cut.

In 2017, some roads and buildings in Cameroon’s economic hub, Douala, were submerged following days of heavy rains, while in Yaounde the sight of women and children trekking across the city to fetch scarce drinking water has become increasingly common.

In Yaounde, the capital, about 34 hectares of trees were cut to build the new Olembe stadium, about 13 km from the centre of the city.

In Limbe, 30 hectares of forests were removed to create space for a stadium and a sport training facility.

Much more land has been cleared to build other facilities related to the 2019 competition, including roads, hotels and large new tracts of housing, environmentalists say.

Cameroon’s government, however, is hopeful that teaming up with city authorities to plant more urban trees can offset some of the damage.

Cameroon’s legendary World Cup soccer player Roger Milla, a sports ambassador for the country, said forested areas had to give way to improve the country’s sporting facilities, noting that “to make omelets one has to break eggs”.

“Cameroon is a lead football nation in Africa but paradoxically without modern sports infrastructure. We have been waiting for this for a long time,” said Milla, whose foundation Coeur d’Afrique has taken part in tree planting efforts in Yaounde since 2016.

“Cameroon’s ability to host the 2019 Africa football Cup of Nations depends on the availability of adapted modern infrastructure,” said Oumarou Tado, secretary general of Cameroon’s Ministry of Sports and Physical Education.

“It is regrettable that many of these new projects have led to vast deforestation – but we had to meet the strict (guidelines) of the African football confederation,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. (Reuters/

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