July 7 (Reuters) - British mercenary Simon Mann was jailed on Monday for 34 years by a court in Equatorial Guinea for a failed 2004 coup plot in which he said the son of former British Prime Minister ...

June 17 (Reuters) - British mercenary Simon Mann went on trial in Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday accused of leading a failed coup against the oil-producing country in 2004. Here is a chronology of the ...

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea - A judge in Equatorial Guinea today suspended the trial of 14 suspected foreign mercenaries accused of plotting to overthrow its president, saying more time was needed to ...

Malabo - An Equatorial Guinea court on Tuesday suspended indefinitely the trial of alleged plotters of a coup against this oil-rich nation, saying it wanted more information on the alleged roles of ...

Simon Mann, left, and fellow prisoners leave a court set up in prison in Harare following their arrest in Zimbabwe in 2003 - AFP/STR Simon Mann, who has died aged 72, was an Old Etonian, former SAS ...

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AP) -- Equatorial Guinea has asked South Africa to extradite Mark Thatcher, son of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who is under house arrest for his ...

Simon Mann turned privilege, training, and raw ambition into one of the most notorious mercenary careers of the modern era. Born into wealth, trained by the British elite, and battle-hardened in ...

British mercenary Simon Mann, who led a failed 2004 coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, has died at the age of 72, British media has reported.

A new book tells the story behind a failed plot by mercenaries to overtake the tiny West African nation of Equatorial Guinea. The plot involved oil, guns and the son of former British Prime Minister ...

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad's government is denying involvement in an alleged coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea late last month, saying the dozens of Chadians arrested are mercenaries "and should be ...

Mark Thatcher likes his privacy. at the whitewashed mansion he shares with his wife and two children in Constantia, outside Cape Town, security guards patrol along the neatly trimmed hedges, and a ...

The West African nation was put on alert Wednesday after a senior government official announced that a putsch mounted by foreign mercenaries on December 24 had been put down. Hours after Security ...