Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simon Mann, left, and fellow prisoners leave a court set up in prison in Harare following their arrest in Zimbabwe in 2003 - ...

He organized a coup in Central Africa as a mercenary - and failed. The Briton Simon Mann has now died at the age of 72.

Briton Simon Mann, jailed for plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, could be transferred home if Britain arrests others like Sir Mark Thatcher, the African state’s president said in an interview ...

Former PM’s son and oil tycoon Eli Calil ‘should face justice’ over failed plot in Equatorial Guinea, says Mann British mercenary Simon Mann on Wednesday vowed to testify in court against Sir Mark ...

Briton Simon Mann, the alleged brains behind a plot to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, was on Friday sentenced to seven years in jail by a Zimbabwe court for attempting to illegally ...

A statement read on state-run radio in Equatorial Guinea says a court is expected to issue a verdict shortly in the case of Simon Mann, a former British military officer charged with trying to ...

Simon Mann, who was sentenced to 34 years in prison in Equatorial Guinea in 2008 for plotting a coup, has been granted a presidential pardon. Supreme Court Justice Obono Olo told the Associated Press ...

Equatorial Guinea’s state prosecutor asked a court on Tuesday to sentence British mercenary Simon Mann to nearly 32 years in prison for his role in a failed 2004 coup. On the first day of Mann’s trial ...

A Malabo court sentenced British mercenary Simon Mann to 34 years and four months in prison on Monday for leading an abortive coup in Equatorial Guinea. Mann (55) was arrested in March 2004 along with ...

Perched on the banks of the river Beaulieu in Hampshire is a rambling house named Inchmery. Today its eight hectares of pasture are placid, but half a century ago they were a training ground for ...

British mercenary Simon Mann goes on trial Tuesday in Equatorial Guinea for allegedly plotting to oust the oil-rich country’s iron-fisted ruler — a charge that could carry the death penalty. Other ...