Lao is working to build a 300 mile road to facilitate a mining project. His story is told in the film, Empire of Dust
Not the best documentary , yet it shows how Africans, left to their own devices, actually regress rather than progress.
One of my sons took a job as a “security contractor” for a company that did most of the work in Africa. He did one year all over central Africa. His position when he came home was “nuke the whole place, everything!”