Dar es Salaam, April 10 -- THREE Americans convicted of attempting to overthrow the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) have been returned to the US to serve out their prison sentences, the Central African countrys presidency announced on Tuesday.

Marcel Malanga Malu, Tylor Thomson, and Zalman-Polun Benjamin were among around 50 people, including a Belgian, a British national, and a Canadian, who were charged with criminal conspiracy, murder, terrorism, and other offenses, following a failed coup last May.

The three, along with 37 others, were sentenced to death by a military court in September. However, last week, Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi commuted Marcel, Thompson, and Benjamins sentences to life impri...