Cameroon Airlines Flight 786 was a Boeing 737-2H7C, registration TJ-CBD, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Douala Airport, Cameroon (ICAO: FKKD), to Garoua via Yaoundé.
Across the border, the nearest CAR settlement on the road is Baboua.
Guy Roger Toindouba (born on April 14, 1988 in Garoua) is a Cameroonian football midfielder who plays for Adana Demirspor.
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He was from July 2007 to January 2008 loaned out to Cotonsport Garoua, from Sahel SC and signed then in Summer 2009 for Al Ahly Tripoli.
Joël Moïse Babanda (born on January 12, 1984 in Garoua) is a Cameroonian footballer who is currently playing for Olympique Khouribga.
The company's first factory was in Douala, and others opened in Yaoundé, then Garoua, Bafoussam, and finally Limbe.
He commanded the Niger river flotilla which drove the Germans out of Dehane in December 1914, then led a party from the coast which transported a naval 12-pounder gun taken out of HMS Challenger on an epic journey of 640 miles along the Niger and Benue rivers, then sixty miles overland, to assist Brigadier-General Cunliffe in the taking of Garoua from a German garrison.
Born in Kousséri, Paba Salé received his primary education there from 1956 to 1963 before attending secondary school in Garoua from June 1963 to March 1970.
There are broadcasting stations at Yaoundé, Douala, Garoua, Buea, Bertoua, Bamenda, and Bafoussam, offering programs in French, English, and many African languages.