Zimbabwe Acquits Most 'Mercenaries' on Arms Charges
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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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Zimbabwe&#39;s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, surged back as a political force yesterday after a court acquitted him of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, ending a two-and-a-half year case that could have seen him executed.
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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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Nuclear trafficking charges against the owner of a South African engineering plant are dropped.
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe suspends his attorney general over corruption allegations, reports say.
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The Zimbabwean army has been mobilised before the verdict today in the controversial trial of the main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who is facing a possible death sentence over an alleged plot to kill President Robert Mugabe.
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A court in Zimbabwe is expected to pass sentence on some 70 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in the West African state of Equatorial Guinea.
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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.
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Zimbabwe's government is tightening restrictions on rights groups operating in the country, reports say.
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MONROVIA, Liberia - Armed UN troops arrested dozens of men Sunday in a sometimes bloody conclusion to a countrywide disarmament program, days after a fresh burst of violent in the war-battered West African nation.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s President Robert Mugabe has accused Britain of harboring Zimbabwean businessman who have fled prosecution for economic crimes at home.
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A Zimbabwean court found Briton Simon Mann guilty of attempting to illegally buy arms for an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea but absolved 66 other suspected mercenaries.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- A former British special forces operative who allegedly led a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea was convicted yesterday of trying to buy weapons from Zimbabwe's state arms manufacturer.
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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe&#39;s president, has rejected a request from Equatorial Guinea for the extradition of 70 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in the west African country.
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Lawyer accuses Zimbabwe of criminal conspiracy to deport British mercenary while appeal was pending
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A court Friday convicted dozens of alleged mercenaries from South Africa and Armenia and sentenced them to prison terms in an alleged coup plot in this oil-rich African nation, rejecting the death penalty for two of the top figures.
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Seventy suspected mercenaries standing trial in Harare escaped a possible death sentence yesterday when Zimbabwe announced that they will not be extradited to Equatorial Guinea.