Cameroon Homes and Plantations Destroyed By Seawater

Yaounde — Cameroon officials have declared a humanitarian emergency after encroaching waters from the Atlantic Ocean destroyed several hundred homes, buildings and plantations along Cameroon’s coast.

Waves pound walls and houses constructed on the shores of Bekumu, a southern Cameroon village located in Ndian, an administrative unit along parts of Cameroon’s 400-kilometer coast on the Atlantic Ocean.

The images broadcast on Cameroon state TV this week show civilians crying out for help.

“If the…