Government lawyers displayed a contract in court on Friday as proof that Simon Mann played a key role in a plot to overthrow E Guinea’s president.
British mercenary Simon Mann goes on trial Tuesday in Equatorial Guinea for allegedly plotting to oust the oil-rich country’s iron-fisted ruler.
The West African state of Equatorial Guinea voted on Sunday in elections expected to be won yet again by the veteran hardline president amid opposition charges of voting irregularities and harassment. The oil-rich state went to the polls in local and general elections whose results were for observers a foregone conclusion
Distraught families in Equatorial Guinea were trying on Monday to identify or simply get news of the mostly charred bodies of at least 60 people killed when an overloaded Antonov passenger plane crashed in flames at the weekend. The Russian-built aircraft went down in dense jungle on Saturday soon after take-off.
The prosecutor in the case of South African alleged mercenary leader Nick du Toit, who has admitted a limited role in a coup bid in Equatorial Guinea, called on Monday for him to be sentenced to death. The South African said he had accepted the job at the request of Simon Mann, the alleged leader of 70 other suspected mercenaries arrested in Zimbabwe. He said Mann had promised him a million dollars.
Call for death penalty for SA ‘mercenary’