{"id":111399,"date":"2026-08-03T23:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111399\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:46:15","slug":"swiss-geologist-and-local-miner-kidnapped-and-killed-in-central-african-republic-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111399\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss geologist and local miner kidnapped and killed in Central African Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">A Swiss geologist and a local miner were killed in the Central African Republic, north of Bangui, according to the local public prosecutor&#8217;s office<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BANGUI, Central African Republic &#8212; 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&#8217;s office on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cIt was as he was leaving that he fell into the hands of the attackers,\u201d said Pounou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Maggini worked with ADMOG Gold, an Emirati company with contracts in the African country, according to Pounou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">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 class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/a250380046554b6cb0bbf6feb1510786\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":"A Swiss geologist and a local miner were killed in the Central African Republic, north of Bangui, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1655,2783,9204,3685,12165,8253,54380,54382,41,17,7295,1046],"class_list":["post-111399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-crime","tag-general-news","tag-international-agreements","tag-islam","tag-kidnapping","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117034246867029784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111399","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=111399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}