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3 Aug 2026
Army in C. African Republic says Swiss man, soldier die in attack
A Swiss man and a soldier were killed in an attack north of Bangui, capital of the mineral-rich Central African Republic (CAR), military officials said on Monday.
“A Swiss national who was here to do a mining survey was killed along with his security detail, a non-commissioned officer in the Central African Army,” a high-ranking officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.
He said “unidentified armed bandits” killed the two men on Thursday about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Bangui.
The authorities would launch an investigation, he said.
The politically unstable CAR has mineral rech are exploited by foreign companies, including from Canada, China, France, Russia, Rwanda and the United States
Faced with increasing insecurity, President Faustin-Archange Touadera has come increasingly to rely on Russia’s Wagner mercenaries, who benefit in return from lucrative contracts in the gold, diamond and logging industries, the Central Africa Observatory NGO said in June.
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Chinese sovereign bond futures contracts began trading on Mondaymestic bond market to international investors and further the internationalisation of the yuan
