Equatoguinean &quot;mercenary&quot; trial starts without Zimbabweans
30719
afrol News, 23 August - The trial against 14 foreigners, allegedly plotting a &quot;mercenary invasion to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema,&quot; started today in Equatorial Guinea&#39;s capital Malabo.
525223
HARARE : Sixty-eight suspected mercenaries including former British soldier Simon Mann begin serving jail sentences this week in Zimbabwe on various convictions related to an alleged plot to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
420034
Liberia's former President Charles Taylor was absent at the start of his trial in The Hague on Monday by a U.N.-backed court for war crimes during Sierra Leone's civil war.
453810
The first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program opened in Italy Friday in the absence of all 26 American defendants accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terrorist suspect.
448998
Harare, Zimbabwe, 10/15 - Zimbabwe`s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai was Friday acquitted by the high court of charges that he plotted to assassinate President Robert Mugabe.
452106
It has been dubbed Hamlet without the prince, a trial where the accused is absent but which could determine if he is to rule South Africa.
121754
Two South Africans acquitted by a Zimbabwe court of weapons charges related to an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea were charged Monday with violating their country&#39;s anti-mercenary laws.
126714
Judges delayed Charles Taylor's trial on charges of directing atrocities in Sierra Leone on Monday after the former Liberian President failed to show up in court, saying he lacked funds for a defense.
389689
Two South Africans acquitted by a Zimbabwean court of charges related to the alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea are to be questioned today by the South African authorities.
580081
After the fateful, the meaningful, as England&#39;s Test tour of South Africa officially got under way yesterday. But with eight of the Test squad not involved in the light quartet of one-day
57539
Zimbabwe denies British journalists entry - but England's tour still looks set to go ahead.
411340
Sir Mark Thatcher is to be tried in absentia over an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, a lawyer says.
119388
The court case against Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who was severely injured in police custody, was delayed on Wednesday when state lawyers did not turn up, defense attorneys said.
19146
Six suspects being held on allegations of plotting a coup to oust President Robert Mugabe have denied charges of treason
693599
A Zimbabwe court Friday acquitted most of 70 suspected mercenaries charged with weapons offences in an alleged plot to topple the government of Equatorial Guinea but found their leader, Simon Mann, guilty.
222894
The probity of the man tipped as South Africa&#39;s next leader was on trial yesterday when a businessman appeared in court accused of paying more than Â£110,000 in bribes.
219227
South Africa charged two of its  nationals under anti-mercenary laws Monday, three days after  they were freed by a Zimbabwean court hearing accusations they  were plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, their lawyer said.