How a US mission to free jailed Americans, push Trump deal in Congo unravelled
From left, Benjamin Zalman Polun, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson. Three Americans had been sentenced to death by a Congolese military court in September 2024 for participating in a separate, failed coup.
An Israeli-American businessman, a former State Department official and a decorated Green Beret pitched up in the Democratic Republic of Congo in March with a message for President Felix Tshisekedi from the Trump administration.
Two days later, they fled the country in fear of arrest.
