Algol - Slum clearance

Slum clearance

Algol

Hamish Tait, Robin Hastie & Jim Hepburn

Thu 6 Sep 2007 22:36

Finished our morning's training session & set off to pick up a sandwich for lunch. Walked out of the hotel to find two large bulldozers in the street, surrounded by a crowd including heavily armed riot police. Turned out they were demolishing a series of buildings along the road edege, presumably as they were slum properties. The attached photo shows where the bar and fish stall were where we ate on Monday night!

This is our last night in Yaounde: tomorrow we head for Maroua.

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