Attempted coup foiled in the Democratic Republic of Congo <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\nUS State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters in Washington on Friday that the federal government was aware of the verdict. The department has not declared the three Americans wrongfully detained, making it unlikely that US officials would try to negotiate their return.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe understand that the legal process in the DRC allows for defendants to appeal the court\u2019s decision,\" Miller said. \"Embassy staff have been attending these proceedings as they\u2019ve gone through the process. We continue to attend the proceedings and follow the developments closely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thompson had been invited on an Africa trip by the younger Malanga, his former high school football teammate in a Salt Lake City suburb. But the itinerary might have included more than sightseeing. Other teammates alleged that Marcel had offered up to 90,000 euros to join him on a \u201csecurity job\u201d in Congo.<\/p>\n
Thompson\u2019s family maintains he had no knowledge of the elder Malanga\u2019s intentions, no plans for political activism and didn\u2019t even plan to enter Congo. He and the Malangas were meant to travel only to South Africa and Eswatini, his stepmother, Miranda Thompson, told The Associated Press in May.<\/p>\n
The Thompsons have been working with a lawyer in their home state of Utah to encourage US officials to intervene. Utah\u2019s US Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee have not publicly urged the US government to advocate for the Americans' release.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy thoughts are with the families during this difficult time,\" Lee told the AP on Friday. \u201cWe will continue to work with the State Department to receive updates on this case.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an extremely difficult and frightening situation for the families involved,\" Romney spokesperson Dilan Maxfield said. \"Our office has consistently engaged with the State Department and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last month, the military prosecutor, Lt. Col. Innocent Radjabu, called on the judges to sentence all of the defendants to death, except for one who suffers from \u201cpsychological problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
Congo reinstated the death penalty earlier this year, lifting a more than two-decade-old moratorium, as authorities struggle to curb violence and militant attacks in the country. The country's penal code allows the president to designate the method of execution. Past executions of militants in Congo have been carried out by firing squad.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1726299942,"updatedAt":1726743091,"publishedAt":1726303798,"firstPublishedAt":1726303798,"lastPublishedAt":1726743091,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/73\/05\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_6a12a0dc-5e99-5a29-882f-7c3689da49cb-8730500.jpg","altText":"FILE - The defendants sitting in court in Kinshasa, DR Congo June 7, 2024.","caption":"FILE - The defendants sitting in court in Kinshasa, DR Congo June 7, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Samy Ntumba Shambuyi\/Copyright 2021 The AP. 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MPOX VACCINES TO DRC","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"EU-donated mpox vaccines arrive in DRC after WHO declared health emergency","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"EU-donated mpox vaccines arrive in Kinshasa","titleListing2":"EU-donated mpox vaccines arrive in DRC three weeks after WHO declared health emergency","leadin":"The 100,000 doses of the MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, have been donated through HERA, the EU's agency for health emergencies.","summary":"The 100,000 doses of the MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, have been donated through HERA, the EU's agency for health 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The second delivery of around 100,000 doses is expected to arrive in the following days,\" said EU Commission spokesperson, Stefan de Keersmaecker.\n\n\"These deliveries are part of the 215,000 vaccine doses that the European Commission, HERA, that is Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority procured and also pledged to share with affected countries in Africa\".\n\nCongolese authorities confirmed a further 100,000 doses are expected to be delivered on Saturday.\n\nUNICEF is going to be in charge of the vaccination campaign in the most impacted provinces, Congo's Health Minister Roger Kamba told reporters after the delivery of the vaccine.\n\nBut it remained unclear when the vaccination drive would begin.\n\nAbout 380,000 doses of mpox vaccines have been promised by Western partners such as the European Union and the United States, Dr Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters last week.\n\nThat is less than 15 per cent of the three million doses authorities have said are needed to end the mpox outbreaks in Congo, the epicentre of the global health emergency.\n\nLast week, the organisation said there were more than 22,800 mpox cases and 622 deaths on the continent and that infections had jumped 200 per cent in the last week.\n\nThe majority of cases and deaths are in the DRC, where the new mpox variant was first detected and where most mpox infections are in children under 15.\n\nFollowing the global mpox outbreak in 2022, wealthy countries quickly responded with vaccines and treatments from their stockpiles.\n\nHowever, only a few doses have reached Africa despite pleas from governments there.\n\nThe MVA-BN vaccine has already been used in Europe and the United States, the EU said, and it is authorised for use in adults.\n\nThe European Medicines Agency is examining additional data to be able to administer it to children aged 12 to 17, which could happen at the end of the month.\n\n215,000 doses were pledged and purchased for an undisclosed amount specifically to be donated to Congo, said Laurent Muschel, the Director-General of HERA.\n\nThe US said last week that it donated 10,000 doses of mpox vaccines to Nigeria, where the disease has been common.\n\nIt is the first known donation to Africa since the current outbreaks.\n\nNigeria has recorded 40 cases of the virus this year, according to Nigeria\u2019s CDC.\n\nMpox, formerly known as monkeypox, had been spreading mostly undetected for years in Africa before the disease prompted the 2022 outbreak in more than 70 countries, Dr Dimie Ogoina, the chair of WHO's mpox emergency committee told reporters last month.\n\n","htmlText":"
The first batch of mpox vaccines has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, three weeks after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox<\/strong><\/a> outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe 100,000 doses of the MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, have been donated by the European Union through HERA, the bloc's agency for health emergencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\"This will be the first delivery of the vaccine to the country. The second delivery of around 100,000 doses is expected to arrive in the following days,\" said EU Commission spokesperson, Stefan de Keersmaecker.<\/p>\n