CONGO, 2017 Zaida Catalán was a Swedish Green Party politician, defender of human and animal rights. In March 2017, she went to Congo in Africa as part of the UN, where she was kidnapped during a UN mission near the village of Ngombe in Kasai province. Her dead body and that of her fellow American, Michael Sharp, were found on March 27, 2017. According to Wikipedia, her head was never found.