South African arms dealer facing death penalty for coup plot
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A South African arms dealer held in Equatorial Guinea for his part in an alleged plot to overthrow the President of the oil-rich state will learn today if he is to be executed.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa A British mercenary whose career reads like a thriller faces sentencing today in a plot to overthrow the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
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South Africa's political crisis deepened yesterday when the ANC's new leader, Jacob Zuma, was told that he would go on trial on August 14 for corruption
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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.
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A Zimbabwe judge is to hand down sentences on Friday against the alleged mastermind of a coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, Briton Simon Mann, and 67 other suspected mercenaries who were convicted two weeks ago.
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HARARE: Former British special forces soldier Simon Mann, who allegedly led a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, was sentenced last night to seven years in prison for trying to buy weapons from Zimbabwe&#39;s state arms manufacturer.
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An Equatorial Guinea court is due to give its verdict on Friday on 14 suspected foreign mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in the tiny country, sub-Saharan Africa&#39;s third biggest oil producer.
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A South African on trial in Equatorial Guinea for plotting a coup said on Monday he had been tortured and two defendants said they were forced to sign confessions
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VANDERBIJLPARK, South Africa  - A businessman  suspected by German prosecutors of helping Libya try to acquire  atomic weapons in 2001 appeared in court in South Africa on  Thursday on charges of trafficking nuclear material.
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An arms dealer, who is the key state witness in the attempted coup in an oil-rich African state, said that he had talks with Sir Mark Thatcher who wanted to buy two military helicopters, it was revealed yesterday.
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Mark Thatcher is likely to face questions in a South African court over allegations he funded an aborted military coup in Equatorial Guinea.
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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.
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A British mercenary who conspired to buy a fighter jet as part of a plot to kill a Colombian drugs baron is jailed.
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A court in Zimbabwe is due to sentence some 70 alleged mercenaries accused of a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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The government of Equatorial Guinea is to sue a British man jailed last week for his part in an alleged coup plot there.
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A South African businessman has appeared in a Zimbabwean court to face charges of attempting to smuggle three rifles and 108 rounds of ammunition, a state-run daily reported Thursday.
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South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma has been linked to a multimillion-dollar arms payoff at a trial in Johannesburg, the Times of London said Tuesday.