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Richard Luscombe

How two Utah school friends ended up facing death penalty in Congo

Marcel Malanga Christian Malanga Tyler Thompson Utah DRC United States Africa Football
A young Black man with a shaved head looks directly at the camera, sitting among dozens of other, mostly older Black men and one white man, all wearing bright blue tunics with bright yellow stripes at the V-necks and the shirt sleeves. They sit in a shaded area in rows.
Marcel Malanga, 21, of Utah sits among others accused of a failed coup attempt at the Ndolo prison in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, on 7 June. Photograph: Arsene Mpiana/AFP/Getty Images

Two events are uppermost in the minds of residents of West Jordan, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, right now, and they could hardly be more different.

One is the 4 July Western Stampede rodeo, the city’s hugely popular annual celebration of patriotism and pride. The other is an attempted coup d’état almost 8,500 miles away in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has swept up two of its young residents.

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