Liberia charges 'coup plotters'
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Liberia's court charges a former army chief and an ex-parliamentary speaker with treason, officials say.
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JOHANNESBURG - Mark Thatcher was preparing to flee South Africa when he was arrested and charged with bankrolling a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, investigators said yesterday.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor goes on trial next week charged with instigating murder, rape and terrorism during Sierra Leone's civil war in a case prosecutors say could end impunity for African strongmen.
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NIGERIA LAGOS -- The Nigerian government yesterday disclosed a foiled coup plot, charging four military officers and a civilian with conspiring to topple the government by shooting down a helicopter carrying President Olusegun Obasanjo. Major Hamza al-Mustapha, former chief of personal security to the late military dictator General Sani Abacha, and four others, were each charged with two counts of ...
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The government has charged Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, in an alleged coup plot here, and will try him in absentia, legal officials close to the case said Tuesday.
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Four Nigerian military officers and a civilian were accused Thursday of plotting to overthrow President Olusegun Obasanjo by firing a rocket at his helicopter, court documents showed.
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US prosecutors charge nine people with plotting a coup in Laos, including a prominent former Laotian general.
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Prosecutors charge 13 people with conspiring to overthrow the government.
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An Equatorial Guinean court handed down prison terms to 22 foreign mercenaries and opposition leaders on Friday for their involvement in an alleged coup plot, but refused to impose death penalty on the leaders.
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Four Nigerian military officers and a  civilian were accused on Thursday of plotting to overthrow  President Olusegun Obasanjo by firing a rocket at his  helicopter, court documents showed.
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A senior Equatorial Guinea official has accused the former Spanish government of involvement in the plot to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
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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.
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Britain reportedly knew about an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea at least five weeks before a team of mercenaries was nabbed in Zimbabwe as they prepared to carry it out.
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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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Ivory Coast's New Forces rebel group, now part of the unity government, accused Sunday one of its former leaders of trying to stage a coup in the west African nation.
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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 suspected South African mercenary on trial in Equatorial Guinea agreed to take part in a plot to oust the country&#39;s president but was not responsible for masterminding it, his lawyer said on Tuesday.