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Athanasius Was a Designated Target

Ambassador Luca Attanasio, killed on the morning of February 22, 2021, in an attack on a World Food Programme convoy in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a "designated target." His murder was "explicitly linked" to the world-class pyrochlore (niobium) carbonatite deposit in Lueshe, which is of Russian interest. This is what emerges from the testimonies of two sources identified during the mission to North Kivu by the ambassador's…
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Ambassador Luca Attanasio, killed on the morning of February 22, 2021, in an attack on a World Food Programme convoy in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a "designated target." His murder was "explicitly linked" to the world-class pyrochlore (niobium) carbonatite deposit in Lueshe, which is of Russian interest. This is what emerges from the testimonies of two sources identified during the mission to North Kivu by the ambassador's…

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Gazzetta di Milano broke the news in on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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