Coup Attempt

A court in Sierra Leone has charged 27 soldiers with multiple offences over an alleged coup attempt. "The charges include mutiny, failure to suppress mutiny, murder, aiding the enemy, communicating with the enemy and other relevant offences," the defence ministry said in a statement. Last November, gunmen broke into a military armoury and several prisons in Freetown, freeing almost 2,000 inmates. The authorities described this as an attempt to "overthrow" […]