Former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky explains how, during the 1991 coup attempt, a KGB general would probably have arrived at Mikhail Gorbachev's Black Sea resort to organise a peaceful change of ...

Three Americans repatriated to the United States from Congo were charged Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department with staging an elaborate coup attempt aimed at overthrowing the African nation ...

The US attorney’s office in the District of Utah unsealed charges against four citizens accused of participating in a failed coup attempt in Democratic Republic of Congo last year. Three of the ...

“Officials from the United States Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo were involved throughout the operation,” it added. ALSO READ: Death sentence for three Americans over DR Congo coup ...

Traore led a second coup in September, which deposed the previous transitional leader, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba. Last August, the landlocked country suffered one of the deadliest ...

The three Americans accused of participating in a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo — and another man recently arrested in Utah — will now face federal charges in the United ...

The three repatriated US citizens include 21-year-old Marcel Malanga, the son of DR Congo opposition figure Christian Malanga, who led the failed coup attempt back in May last year and was killed ...

Thompson and Zalman-Polun were all part of a May 2024 coup attempt led by Malanga’s father, Christian, in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa. Christian Malanga was a minor opposition figure in ...

Among the three Americans is 22-year-old Marcel Malanga, son of opposition figure Christian Malanga, who led the coup attempt that targeted the presidential palace in Kinshasa.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Three Americans repatriated to the United States from Congo this week have been charged with participating in an elaborate coup attempt aimed at overthrowing the African ...