The lake released a large cloud of carbon dioxide (CO2) on August 21, 1986, suffocating over 1,700 people and numerous ... In Nyos an­d Kam, the first villages hit by the cloud, everyone but ...

In the span of a hundred years, from 1700 ... village" into one of the busiest slave-trading ports on the Atlantic, with its ships accounting for over 40% of the European slave trade from Africa ...