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Douala

[ doo-ah-lah ]

noun

  1. a seaport in W Cameroon.


Douala

/ ʊˈɑːə /

noun

  1. the chief port and largest city in W Cameroon, on the Bight of Bonny: capital of the German colony of Kamerun (1901–16). Pop: 1 980 000 (2005 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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She was at the public prosecutor's office in Douala when she observed a group of young people handcuffed in pairs, who did not have the courage to look up.

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But that will require a shrewd reading of popular sentiment, especially among youth and the middle-class in big cities such as Yaoundé and Douala.

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After a hard day’s work at her humble shop in Douala, a busy city in Cameroon, she’s mugged by a motorcycle taxi driver.

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Thirty-three people are now known to have died in Cameroon's biggest city, Douala, after a four-storey building collapsed and fell onto another residential block.

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It is not known what caused the building in Douala's Ange Raphael neighbourhood to collapse, but residents have told journalists it looked dilapidated.

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