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Devastating toxic spill seen as test of whether African countries will stand up to China

Even before the dam collapsed, Lamec did not feel safe working at the copper mine.

“If our work protective gear gets damaged, it is not always replaced,” he tells us. “We have to take a risk and use it again.”

He is talking to the BBC in a car on a quiet backroad near a village in northern Zambia, too nervous to speak to us in public or to use his real name, for fear that speaking to the press might cost him his livelihood.


China is the new Honeybadger

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