U.S. Department of State

Congo says three Americans convicted of participating in a botched coup attempt last year have been repatriated to the United States. The government had commuted their death sentences to life imprisonment days ago. Officials say they will serve their sentences in the U.S.

A military court in Congo has convicted 37 people, including three Americans, on charges of taking part in a coup attempt and sentenced them to death.

Somewhere around March, people who thought they were renewing or applying for new passports in plenty of time for their summer trips flooded what the State Department says is a system still short-staffed from cuts during the pandemic.