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The Minister of State, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization on a working visit to wum.
M. MARAFA HAMIDOU YAYA will be in Wum, Menchum Division of the North-West Region, on Sunday 21 March 2010,  accompanied by the Minister of Scientific Research and Innovation, Mme MADELEINE TCHUENTE. The Minister will visit Lake Nyos, preside over a session of the Steering Committee of the National Programme to Secure and Rehabilitate Lake Nyos and a simulation exercise. It should be recalled that Lake Nyos is the source of the disaster of August 1986 that left about one thousand eight hundred dead, and thousands of animals. Since then, measures put in place by public authorities with the support of various development partners, are all aimed at averting the recurrence of such a disaster.

PRESS RELEASE No.0020/CP/MINATD/SG/CC

The Minister of State, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization wishes to inform the national and international community that on the instructions of the Prime Minister, Head of Government, he shall be on a working visit to Wum, Menchum Division of the North-West Region from 21 to 23 March 2010.

This visit is in line with the implementation of the National Programme to Secure and Rehabilitate Lake Nyos, designed together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the European Union (EU).

This mission that will involve the participation of UNDP and the representatives of other des United Nations organs based in Cameroon, will equally enable the Minister of State, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, to preside over a session of the Steering Committee of the National Programme to Secure and Rehabilitate Lake Nyos, and a simulation exercise to test les disaster response capacity of the Menchum operational team, according to the relief organization plan (Orsec) of this division./

Yaounde, 18 March 2010

THE MINISTER OF STATE,
MINISTER OF TERRITORIAL ADMINISTRATION AND DECENTRALIZATION
MARAFA HAMIDOU YAYA