D.R.Congo: Dirty Metals for Clean Energy - The Green Line - Ep 4
The Red Line
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The Importance of Infrastructure in Mining Companies
Many civilians living in these towns expected that the mining companies would build up the communities around the mine sites as well. It's actually quite tricky for these mining companies when they have to work in a weak state, he says. When it's easy to bribe whoever is in charge to make sure the roads are sustainable, at best you just build a road that will help you take your products out of the country and then you know clearly that after a few years of stopping your operations this work will be washed away and you don't care. So people are still struggling to go from town to town or village to village to get their agricultural product out since none of the authority has taken advantage of the mineral
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