Congo Commutes Death Sentences for Two Young Americans Who Were Lured Into the Country With Promise of Trip but Forced To Join a Coup
The African country hopes the gesture will entice the Trump Administration to sign a minerals deal that would provide them protection from rebels.
Two lifelong friends from Utah who were promised a summer vacation in Africa but instead were forced to take part in a failed coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been spared their death penalty sentence as part of a minerals deal the country hopes to have with the Trump administration.
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