Lawyers for 70 South African suspected mercenaries held in Zimbabwe threatened on Tuesday to take Pretoria to court if it does not try to extradite them to prevent them being sent to Equatorial Guinea. The men were arrested in March after their plane landed in Harare on what Zimbabwe says was a mission to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of tiny Equatorial Guinea — sub-Saharan Africa’s third-largest oil producer. The suspects deny the charges, saying they were heading to the Democratic Republic of Congo to guard mining operations. Full Story
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