A coup attempt’s aftermath in the DR Congo
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
It was easily thwarted, but Christian Malanga’s amateurish alleged coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to overthrow the government made it as far as President Felix Tshisekedi’s official residence. How are the government and Congolese citizens making sense of the aftermath?
In this episode:
- Shola Lawal (@Shollytupe), Independent Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé, with Tamara Khandaker, Chloe K. Li, Sonia Bhagat, Manahil Naveed, Duha Mosaad, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, the aftermath of an amateur failed coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| 0:18.4 | The whole thing played out like a really bad movie. |
| 0:23.7 | How three Americans |
| 0:24.8 | got as far as the presidential palace |
| 0:27.1 | and what happens next. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Malika Bilal |
| 0:33.0 | and this is the take. |
| 0:51.6 | I say it enough with this world regime, a dictatorship, the regime that has sucked our blood. |
| 0:58.4 | In the early hours of Sunday, May 19th, Christian Malanga went live on Facebook. |
| 1:01.4 | Felix, you out! Felix Begers! |
| 1:07.7 | Malanga, a Congolese citizen, was raised in Utah, in the United States. |
| 1:13.3 | He looked determined to seize power in the DRC and overthrow the government of President Felix de Sakeedi. Under Malanga's command were 50 armed men. |
| 1:22.8 | The endeavor, though, proved short-lived. And then we see photos of Christian Malanga's corpse. |
| 1:30.3 | This was the army speaker on television later that day. |
| 1:34.3 | The armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo inform our citizens and the international community |
| 1:40.3 | that an attempted coup d'etat has been nipped in the bat by the defense and security |
| 1:45.0 | forces. |
| 1:48.2 | Democratic Republic of Congo's so-called coup attempt has raised yet more questions. |
| 1:54.5 | Question Shola Lawal has been trying to answer. |
| 2:00.3 | I'm an independent journalist currently covering Africa and African diasporas for Al Jazeera Digital. |
| 2:08.3 | I'm based in Berlin. |
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