{"id":111275,"date":"2026-08-03T16:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111275\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:46:04","slug":"swiss-geologist-and-local-miner-kidnapped-and-killed-in-central-african-republic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111275\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss geologist and local miner kidnapped and killed in Central African Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) \u2014 A Swiss geologist and a local miner were killed on Thursday in the Central African Republic, north of the capital, Bangui, according to a statement from the local public prosecutor\u2019s office on Monday. <\/p>\n

Luca Maggini and the miner were kidnapped by unidentified men in the evening and later killed, according to Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Pounou, a geologist who was working alongside Maggini when he was kidnapped.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was as he was leaving that he fell into the hands of the attackers,\u201d said Pounou.<\/p>\n

The attack occurred near the village of Gbango-Carriere, 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of Bangui, and also resulted in the kidnapping of a staff sergeant in the Central African Army, according to the public prosecutor\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n

Maggini worked with ADMOG Gold, an Emirati company with contracts in the African country, according to Pounou.<\/p>\n

The Central African Republic has faced years of instability, and it is one of the countries where Wagner, a Russian mercenary group, was first active in Africa.<\/p>\n

Conflict began in the country in 2013 after mostly Muslim rebels seized power and forced then President Fran\u00e7ois Boziz\u00e9 to quit. The conflict was de-escalated by a 2019 peace<\/a> deal between the government and 14 armed groups, but six of the groups later withdrew from the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) \u2014 A Swiss geologist and a local miner were killed on Thursday in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[54379,54378,1655,54381,54383,2783,9204,3685,12165,54384,8253,54380,54382,41,17,7295,1046],"class_list":["post-111275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-bangui","tag-central-african-republic","tag-crime","tag-franois-boziz","tag-frdric-pounou","tag-general-news","tag-international-agreements","tag-islam","tag-kidnapping","tag-luca-maggini","tag-military-and-defense","tag-mining-accidents","tag-rebellions-and-uprisings","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}