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An expensive round of score-settling and legal cases among the purported financiers and conspirators behind the 2004 coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is likely to be the immediate outcome of the release of convicted plotter Simon Mann, a dual British and... Full Article at AllAfrica.com

Simon Mann - Second in command of the coup and jailed for 34 years for his part Ely Calil - An oil tycoon said to have been the main financial backing behind the plot Sir Mark Thatcher - Son of the former PM was said to have carried out... Full Article at Daily Mail - UK

MALABO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma will sign bilateral deals and inspect oil projects in Equatorial Guinea during a visit on Wednesday, the central African nation said in a statement. Full Article at Reuters Alert Net

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, dictator of the tiny but oil-rich West African country, announced the release of Eton-educated Mann, 56, on his government's website. Mann, said Nguema, had been pardoned on "humanitarian grounds." Full Article at The Scotsman

THE family of New Forest mercenary Simon Mann have told of their delight after he was granted a full pardon for his part in a failed coup plot in Equatorial Guinea. Full Article at Bournemouth Daily Echo