Year

Location

Effects

1988-1989

Northern Cameroon

▪51deaths, Houses destroyed and 58,000 people affected

▪Thousands of hectares of cereal farms destroyed

1991

Maroua

▪2 deaths and about 200 people displaced

1994

Maroua, Mokolo, Logone& Chari

▪6 deaths

1999

Garoua, Demsa, Pitoa, Padang, Bame, Pabla, Dargala and Taipee

▪24 deaths and about 1000 homeless

▪Lagdo dam and other infrastructures damaged

2000

Maroua

▪4 deaths and thousands of households affected

▪Bridges, Houses destroyed

2001

Maroua

▪2 deaths

2008

Garoua and 27 Neighbourhoods

▪9 deaths, 5000 affected, 80% of cultivated land in Garoua destroyed, including bridges and roads

▪Respiratory infections, malaria, diarrhoea and cholera

2010

Pouss

▪More than 113 deaths , and 600 families left homeless

▪1000 hectares of crops and 300 houses destroyed

▪Caused cholera epidemic, diarrhoea , malaria

2011

Garoua

Affected thousands and caused cholera outbreak

2012

Garoua, Maga, Doreissou, Begué, Palam, Dougui, Pouss and Tekele

▪More than 30 fatalities, 150,000 affected and

▪Thousands of hectares of cereal farms were destroyed

▪Infrastructure, and crops damaged worth billions of CFA

▪Hydrological structures (dams, dykes) damaged

▪Caused delay in the start of the 2012/2013 school year

2013

Dongui, Kaikai in Far North Region

▪Rupture of dam along Logone river

▪Evacuations of people along the Magda dam

▪9000 people displaced

2014

Bibemi

▪700 families & 3500 people affected, 1380 people displaced

▪Farms destroyed, and thousands of livestock killed.

▪223 houses destroyed

2015

Maroua, Gazawa, Bogo. Ndamare, Ndoukoula district

▪3 deaths

94 houses damaged