In addition to the fact that we are all compatriots and have the responsibility to help each other in foreign lands, the main investment of Chinese businessmen in Akwa is the gold mining industry.

The tragic casualties of the gold diggers and miners in the natural disasters in Mamba have had a negative impact on the investment of Chinese businessmen in the gold mining industry in Akwa.

To be honest, in recent years, the gold diggers and gold miners who have entered Akwamanba with the dream of making a fortune have been somewhat eager for quick success, and have carried out almost predatory mining of local placer gold resources, which has caused a lot of damage to the environment.

In the past two years, Cao Mo has not known how many times he has gone to Mangba, and he has also been to the Disujin River Valley three times to see the local placer gold mining, and four or five hundred excavators are densely distributed on the intermittent and more than ten kilometers long river beach, digging out the soil with placer gold precipitated on the riverbed, and transporting it to the nearby placer gold machine for flushing and filtration, and the muddy water is also directly discharged into the Disujin River; in many places, the embankment is directly hollowed out, and no one thinks of backfilling.

It is unclear whether the collapse of the upper reaches of the Disukin River was a factor, but if it is seized and instigated, things will get even more tricky.

There were no flights from Draculamo to Pemei Harbor in the past two days, Cao Mo frowned and pondered for a moment, and said to Xie Sipeng: "You inform Ade, I will leave with you now, and rush to Mamba overnight - we will contact Juan Mantal and Stari, Xiao Jun, and Abuja on the way to see what Drake can do......"

"I'll just rush over there. Xie Sipeng said.

The Disujin Valley Placer Gold Farm has nothing to do with Cao Mo and Yibogu Mining, Xie Sipeng's personal investment has been completely withdrawn, but too many people are his old acquaintances, and even many people are directly encouraged by him to go to Akwa.

He is now urgently rushing to Mangba to meet Xu Sheng, and it is his duty to meet him.

However, he didn't feel that it was necessary for Cao Mo to rush over in person, and there was no need to alarm so much at once.

Even if Cao Mo wants to express something, he can fully represent Ibogu Mining and Cao Mo, right?

Seeing that Zhou Han was also a little slack, Cao Mo said: "Do you still remember the day when the Brotherhood of Steel Fist besieged the Taihua Industrial Park, what was the Jidam family still doing and spreading any rumors?"

Of course, Xie Sipeng remembered that on the day when the Brotherhood of Steel Fist besieged the Taihua Industrial Park, the Jidam family spread rumors everywhere that Chinese businessmen were involved in smuggling and used a large amount of cheap contraband to attack local traders and factories, with the intention of prompting the Draculamo Police Department to seize several business establishments where Chinese businessmen were concentrated, such as the Hua Mall, to incite extreme national sentiment in Draculamo and Kanem, and to find an excuse for the Brotherhood of Steel to besiege the Taihua Industrial Park.

"Are you still worried that someone will take advantage of this?" Xie Sipeng asked.

"If Xu Sheng had not taken precautions in advance, the loss should not have been small—not only the Chinese merchants would have suffered losses, but also the local tribes. If Xu Sheng can't handle these things well, all the consequences will have to be borne by us. After Cao Mo had an almost telepathic terrifying intuition, he pondered people's hearts, and it was no longer beyond the reach of old foxes like Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan.

"......" Xie Sipeng saw that Cao Mo's concern was not limited to the gold miners in the Disujin River Valley, and his expression became more solemn.

After the C2 reserve assessment of the Wusan River copper-gold mine was announced to the outside world, it caused an extremely strong response in Akwa, mainly positive and positive, at least in the process of Xie Sipeng joining the Ibogu Mining and the local and central high-level contacts with the Akwa region, there have not been many unfavorable voices for Ibogu Mining, but he also knows very well that this does not mean that there is none, or that there are no powerful pretenders in the secret.

The main reason is that Cao Mo used a lot of resources in the early stage to plug all the loopholes that may appear in the law, and while starting the construction of the Wusan River copper-gold mine with all his might, he also vigorously managed the relationship with local forces, but it does not mean that powerful pretenders are dead.

It has been three or four months since the C2 reserve assessment report of the Wusan River copper-gold mine was released, and now Yang Deshan and they are still excited to talk about this - as a super copper-gold mine with the largest C2 reserves in Africa and a total resource value of more than 100 billion US dollars, the covetousness and greed that can be triggered are absolutely beyond imagination.

Thinking so, Xie Sipeng realized that he had overlooked the possible negative effects and consequences of the dam of the Disujin River.

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After calling Yang Deshan, Wendiscaf and others in the industrial park for a small meeting, Cao Mo, Xie Sipeng and Zhou Han set off under the protection of the convoy and rushed across the border of Benin overnight to the Mamba area in north-central Akwa.

On the way to Benin and the south-central region of Akwa, there were showers from time to time, and the weather was fine when it entered the territory of the north-western province of Akwa.

As the largest river in Akwa, the Voltibo River traverses the northwestern part of Akwa.

Although the Voltibo River, which cuts through the central state highway line of Akwa, is only six or seven hundred meters wide, there is no bridge connecting the north and south.

Cao Mo and the others could only honestly park their cars in front of the pier and wait for the ferry to cross the river.

Although the weather is fine in the Northwest Province, the water of the Voltibo River is muddy, and the water level is much higher than in previous years, so it can be seen that the disaster situation in the upper reaches may be much more serious than imagined.

The Disukin River, the Fagne River and, further southwest, the Usan River, are all tributaries of the north side of the Voltibo River.

Although Cao Mo and his family entered the territory of Akwa early in the morning and listened to the radio and learned that the Akwa National Disaster Relief and Emergency Response Department had launched a disaster seeking procedure for Mangba and other places in the Northwest Province, whether it was contact with Juan Mantar or Cao Mo's understanding of the country and the Mamba regional government, he could not expect too much from the national and local disaster relief and emergency departments.

Otherwise, the local disaster and emergency response authorities would have been able to monitor the collapse and blockage of the upstream river and issue an alert in time, rather than waiting for the dammed lake to burst open by the accumulated river water.

To the north of the Voltibo River is the territory of Mamba.

As the most important iron coal production base in Akwa and the whole of West Africa, Mamba is currently more important in Akwa than Drake, and the Fagne River gold mine, which Xinhai Gold took over from Ibogu Mining, is also located in Mamba, only four or five kilometers away from the Disukin River Valley.

Crossing the Voltibo River, Cao Mo, Xie Sipeng, and Zhou Han rushed to the Fagne River mining area first.

The Fagne River mining area was transferred to Xinhai Gold after Ibogu Mining took over more than half a year.

Cao Mo has invested millions of dollars in camp infrastructure before, and after Xinhai Gold took over, he invested 40 million US dollars, which has not yet been officially put into production, but a modern mine has begun to take shape.

The water level of the Fagne River has also risen, but there is a lot of investment in infrastructure on the mining site, and if there is any impact, many trees inside and outside the mine have been damaged by wind and rain, and there are broken branches and fallen leaves in the drainage ditches.

Several dormitory buildings and offices have been built and put into use in the mine.

Xinhai Gold's West Africa branch is currently based with the Fagne River Mine Department, and its president, Zhao Xinquan, also represents Xinhai Gold as a director of Ibogu Mining.

Not only did Xiao Jun and the rescue team from Drake rush to the Fagne River mining area in the early morning, but Cao Mo also informed Xu Sheng to organize the gold miners affected by the flood to evacuate to the Fagne River mining area as far as possible, instead of retreating to the city of Mangba.

Seeing Cao Mo and Xie Sipeng rushing over in a car, Xu Sheng, who had been beaten by frost, accompanied Zhao Xinquan and Xiao Jun over.

"Have all the people withdrawn?" Cao Mo got out of the car and saw that there were two or three hundred pickup trucks and off-road vehicles on the east side of the dormitory area, and asked with concern, "How about our casualties, has the rescue team entered the Disujin River, and how many assault boats have been transferred?"

"The rescue team has arrived at the scene, and only three assault boats have been transferred at present, and Mr. Zhao and I have just rushed back from there,"

Xu Sheng has not come to his senses until now, Xiao Jun and Zhao Xinquan are responsible for organizing disaster relief, personnel evacuation, and casualty loss statistics.

"Those who evacuated the equipment and personnel to safety in time are still in place, and those who have been evacuated here are all washed away by the floods, and there are 367 people in 121 mines – nine Chinese employees have drowned, and more than 70 have not been contacted. Of course, the main reason is that satellite phones are limited, many roads have been washed away by floods, and most people should only be temporarily unable to contact them, and nothing will happen. "The huge amount of property damage remains unchanged, and even if the subsequent death toll does not increase, the drowning of nine Chinese employees and investors in Akwa is a terrifying figure.

"What about the losses of the local hired workers and the tribes living on both sides of the Disujin River?" Cao Mo asked again.

"This job is being done by someone rushing over to do it, and I don't know the specific situation yet. Xiao Jun said.

Obviously, Xu Sheng took care of themselves, and didn't think about the casualties of the local employees at all - after Xiao Jun and Zhao Xinquan contacted him by phone, he could only wait for the day after dawn to send people into the Disujin Valley to organize rescues before he could start counting the casualties of the local employees.

In addition to the projects listed in the catalogue open to foreign investment, there are many more domestic investment projects in Akwa that strictly restrict foreign capital involvement, but in the case of placer gold mining, small mines of less than 25 acres are not subject to this restriction.

Xie Sipeng and Xu Sheng took advantage of this legal loophole of the Akwa authorities early on, dividing the river beach in the lower reaches of the Disujin River Valley into small plots of about 25 acres.

In less than three years, more than 270 gold miners have poured into this small placer field, ranging from one excavator to seven or eight excavators, or contracting multiple placer mines at the same time, employing more than 5,000 hired workers from local tribes, in addition to thousands of gold miners and Chinese employees who work as translators, technicians and assistants.

In order to facilitate management and to prevent local employees from colluding with bandits, gold miners often make it mandatory for local employees to live in camps and be under unified management.

If there are so many drowning and missing employees in China, the casualty figures of local employees must be even more terrifying.

Xie Sipeng's face was a little ugly.

If the gold miners who had destroyed their facilities and camps were evacuated, and if they only thought about the casualties of the Chinese employees and their own losses, but ignored the casualties of the local employees, how much resentment and resentment would accumulate in the hearts of the local people?

Not to mention the breach of the dammed lake this time, the tribes in the lower reaches of the Disu River will inevitably be seriously affected, and it is difficult to say whether they will turn their anger to gold placer mining.

These gold miners, who have suffered heavy losses, or have no possibility of a comeback, can only return to China in gloom, but all of it is borne by the Chinese merchants who continue to stay in Akwa to develop.

"What about Counselor Dong?" Cao Mo knew that the embassy had also sent officials from Peimei overnight, but he didn't see Dong Jianwei, the counselor who led the team.

"Counselor Dong has gone to see Mayor Mangba, I just spoke to Counselor Dong on the phone, and he still has half an hour to come over. Xiao Jun said......