Zimbabwe Convicts Accused 'Mercenary' for Weapons
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A Zimbabwe court Friday convicted a  British man accused of leading a coup plot against the  government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea on weapons charges,  but acquitted most of the 69 other men held with him.
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A ZIMBABWE court yesterday convicted Briton Simon Mann, a former SAS and Scots Guards officer, of attempting to buy weapons for an attempted coup in the oil-rich West African state of Equatorial Guinea.
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An Armenian and South African were convicted by a federal jury on Tuesday of agreeing to smuggle Russian military arms into the United States including rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons.
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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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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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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.
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The High Court of Zimbabwe here on Friday announced that the leader of the main opposition party, Morgan Tsvangirai, is acquitted of accusation of planning to kill President Robert Mugabe.
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At least 68 suspected mercenaries, including Simon Mann, a former British soldier, and a number of South African nationals, begin serving jail sentences this week in Zimbabwe.
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Three men who admitted violating South Africaâs anti-mercenary laws for their role in an failed coup in Equatorial Guinea were ordered to pay fines or go to prison today.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, June 20 -- Three former military leaders in Sierra Leone were found guilty of war crimes Wednesday by a U.N.-backed court, the first verdicts stemming from the country's 10-year civil war.
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Two men convicted of membership in the illegal paramilitary Irish Republican Army, one of them a prominent Sinn Fein party member, were given four-year jail sentences.
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The security guard alleged to have killed the rapper Proof has been convicted on two weapons charges.
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BELGRADE, Serbia, May 23 -- Slobodan Milosevic's paramilitary commander and 11 other men were convicted and sentenced Wednesday in the assassination of Serbia's first democratically elected prime minister, Zoran Djindjic.
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Two South African men released from a Zimbabwe prison after being cleared of charges of plotting a coup say they were stripped and beaten in jail.
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South African police have filed charges of violating anti-mercenary laws against two men acquitted by a Zimbabwe court of involvement in an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan  Tsvangirai was acquitted on Friday of plotting to assassinate  President Robert Mugabe and seize power, in a verdict that  provides a major boost for the opposition.
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A citizen of Zimbabwe pleaded guilty Friday to attempting to take a gun aboard a plane at Gatwick airport.