Equatorial Guinea convicts dozens in alleged coup plot, but waives ...
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A court in Equatorial Guinea convicted 11 foreigners and two local men on Friday on charges stemming from what prosecutors said was a plot to topple President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
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The trial of 19 people accused of seeking to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea was scheduled to resume after five days of hearings last week left the world little the wiser about the reality of their alleged putsch attempt.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 29  - The arrest of Mark Thatcher in South Africa over a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is shining a spotlight on powerful members of the British elite who may have colluded to take over the oil-rich African country.
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An Equatorial Guinea official says the former Spanish government backed the plot against President Obiang.
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The Foreign Office is playing down reports it had full details of a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea two months before it was nipped in the bud.
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Authorities in Equatorial Guinea suspended indefinitely yesterday the trial in an alleged coup plot here, awaiting information
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A South African arms dealer accused of a key role in a planned coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea today sought to clear 18 imprisoned co-defendants.
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HARARE : A court in Zimbabwe found Briton Simon Mann guilty of attempting to illegally buy arms to stage a putsch in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea but acquitted 66 other defendants of involvement in the alleged coup.
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Britain received a full outline of a plot to stage a coup d'etat in Equatorial Guinea at least two months before it was nipped in the bud.
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An Equatorial Guinea court is due to give its verdict in the case of 19 men accused of plotting a coup.
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PRETORIA -- Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister, avoided jail and agreed to pay a $500,000 fine yesterday after pleading guilty for what he called his unwitting role in a failed plot last year to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny, oil-rich West African nation long ruled by a dictator.
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The son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded guilty Thursday to a role in a foiled coup in Equatorial Guinea under a plea bargain that spares him prison.
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Ex-SAS officer Simon Mann is convicted of attempting to buy arms for an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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The son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was charged in a South African court of bankrolling a coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea that led to the arrest of dozens of suspected mercenaries five months ago.
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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.
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A court in sub-Saharan Africa&#39;s third biggest oil producing nation, Equatorial Guinea, has handed down lengthy jail sentences to a dozen South Africans and Armenians convicted of plotting a coup.
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LONDON - The British government was given details of an alleged plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, including the names of mercenaries and the expected date of the attack, months in advance, a newspaper reported on Sunday.