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US Unseals Charges Against 4 Americans in Congo Coup Attempt

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Three Americans have been transferred to the United States after their death sentences over a foiled deadly coup were commuted to life imprisonment last week by Congolese authorities, in the wake of t...
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Prosecutors say the goal of the plot was to establish a new government known as the New Zaire and install Christian Malanga as its president.

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