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A man said to be a British citizen, alongside three Americans, may face the death penalty after a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ezangi Youssouf, alongside Marcel Malanga, Tyler Thompson, Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun was part of the doomed putsch led by Christian ­Malanga, a self-styled opposition figure. A military spokesman, Major General Sylvain Ekenge said an interrogation into the men continues and that they will be “handed to a military tribunal” as opposed to a regular court. It comes after a ban on the death penalty was recently lifted for convictions linked t…

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