A federal jury in Missouri needed less than three hours on Monday to convict two U.S. citizens of orchestrating a violent campaign of terror thousands of miles away in West Africa.
Francis Chenyi, Sr., 52, of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Lah Nestor Langmi, 49, of Buffalo, New York, were found guilty of conspiracy to provide material support to separatist fighters in Cameroon. Prosecutors said the men funneled money and equipment used to kidnap civilians, ransom hostages, and detonate explosives against government targets.
The verdict caps a trial that laid bare a pipeline of funding stretching from American cities to the volatile Northwest Region of Cameroon…