"Equatorial Guinea Seeks Thatcher Warrant"

Equatorial Guinea has requested international arrest warrants for Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister, and other British financiers accused in an alleged coup plot in this tiny oil-rich nation, the deputy premier said Saturday.

The warrants are necessary before extradition can be sought, but Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfube said Equatorial Guinea was still studying whether to seek the handover of Thatcher, who was arrested Wednesday in South Africa.

Nfube told reporters in the capital, Malabo, that Equatorial Guinea had asked for "international arrest warrants for all responsible in this coup d'etat."

Nfube named Thatcher, the 51-year-old son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, financier Eli Calil and Simon Mann. Mann, a former Etonian, British Special Forces operative and noted mercenary in Africa, was convicted Friday in Zimbabwe in an arms deal connected with the alleged plot here.

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